Ghettos in the US

[sn00pie]

When reading this...

Originally posted by Josh
I got stuck downtown the other day with my brother(on spring break) in the car with me. Nothing like sitting in bumper to bumper traffic in some ghetto ass projects(I don't care what Doug says. Right when you get off the Cooper River bridges it is still GHETTO!) with huge groups of people hanging out fighting, drinking, pissing(yes, we saw a few drunks pissing), playing basketball, etc. We even saw like 16 year olds walking down the road drinking beer. We got lost on our way to the Charleston Aquarium/IMAX theater. Damn, what fun it was to be two white kids under 20 driving a loud ass new Cobra through a predominantly black neighborhood with people staring, and screaming ****.

by Rumple Foreskin
That is one of my worst fears right there. Getting stuck and/or getting lost in a bad part of town.

If I am in ghetto country I won't stop even if there is a cop behind me. I don't feel like getting shot over a car. I will happily take and speeding ticket or fine they wan't to give me. It is better than getting shot in the temple and dragged out of your car.

Anyone who knows parts of Scarborough (around Toronto) knows that there are definatly some areas that are not the safest place to be, even during the day.

I got curious as to how bad certain parts of US (or anywhere for that matter) can get.

Share some experiences if possible. This is fascinating stuff.

 

[milefile]

In phoenix there is a street called Van Bueren. It is skid row. It is lined with used car dealers, a prison, slum apartments, by-the-hour motels, strip clubs, drug dealers and hookers. Some filthy hooker threw a rock at my car and broke my window once because I told her to buzz off and get away from me.

In Chicago there were tons of ghettos. There are some neighborhoods that not even the cops will go to. It's just anarchy. But Chicago is in the process of eliminating all of it's high-rise housing projects, which is a great idea.

In San Francisco there was the Tenderloin. If you're looking for drugs or sex it's the place to be. If you just want to walk somewhere and be left alone, avoid it.

Even rural or suburban areas have ghettos. They are called trailer parks.

 

[1X83Z]

Yeah, we have ghettos. Just ask Chicago. What a toilet. Chicago's ghettos aren't even a place cops go unless there's shots fired or something extremely similar. It's where the war on drugs is being lost.

Los Angeles has ghettos, namely in the very south part of the city and surrounding "communities" like Lynwood and Compton. But those are gang-driven crime-filled ghettos, where Chicago's are just a bunch of strung-out losers with 25-year-old Bonnevilles trying to score some crack or beat up their girlfriend so she won't have their seventy-fifth kid (not saying California's aren't similar).

New York is nowhere near as bad as anyone thinks. Brooklyn's not bad, and Bronx is getting more and more working class. The worst part of our town is Harlem, which is in the north section of the borough (and island) of Manhattan. In my opinion, everything north of 125th St/Saint Nicholas, Central Park North, and East 96th should be divided into the sixth borough, "Harlem," so Harlem will stop holding down Manhattan's average income statistics. Fortunately, there's a highway on either side of Harlem so "we" (civilization) don't have to stop.

Philadelphia might have the worst ghettos in America. It's undescribably horrible.

 

[Sage]

Even rural or suburban areas have ghettos. They are called trailer parks.

*muffled laugh* I live about two miles from a trailer park, and had to ride on the bus that picked up those kids, so I know what you mean. It's pretty bad.

So, Krabe wants to know about ghettos. Well, the buildings are usually old and run down, and there are alleys, which don't really exist in modern housing developments. Streets are usually crowded, the intersections are dangerous, and there are a lot of "thugs" (baggy jeans, wrong-way caps, weird dancing). Everything inspires uneasiness. The only time I ever go through one is on the way to the L.A. Auto Show... otherwise, I keep my butt in the suburban areas where it belongs.

 

[Zrow]

What about Baltimore? Just hard to live here. Really, it gets pretty bad in spots.

 

[Joey D]

Detroit is pretty bad in some areas. I've been lost down there before and its amazing how run down areas are.

I've also been down there for street races before in some really shaddy areas.

 

[skylineGTR_guy]

Originally posted by milefile
In phoenix there is a street called Van Bueren. It is skid row. It is lined with used car dealers, a prison, slum apartments, by-the-hour motels, strip clubs, drug dealers and hookers. Some filthy hooker threw a rock at my car and broke my window once because I told her to buzz off and get away from me.

Van Bueren I hate that road, went down it once, total ****, kept the doors locked and the pedal to the metal.

What about El Mirage? Ever been there?

In Chicago there were tons of ghettos. There are some neighborhoods that not even the cops will go to. It's just anarchy. But Chicago is in the process of eliminating all of it's high-rise housing projects, which is a great idea.

Lived there too, my best friend lived in the projects, I hated going to his house.

Even rural or suburban areas have ghettos. They are called trailer parks.

You ever been to Whittman? total crap, the whole town is nothing but trailers and run down mobile homes, many dont have electricity or running water, you should see some of the trash that comes into my pharmacy with forged perscriptions and wanting to buy syringes because they are diabetic , then when you ask them how many units of insulin they take they freeze and start to mumble and guess.

 

[Klostrophobic]

Just a couple ghettos around me. Roxbury and Dorchester. I drove into Dorchester about 2 weeks ago to play golf. Haha.

There'e nothing like twilight golf in the middle of the ghetto.

It's hard to believe that they stuffed a golf course smach dab in the middle of a ghetto, but they pulled it off.

 

[Purple Platypus]

California's Bay Area has some places that can get pretty bad. There's a good chunk of Oakland that's good to go around. Worst part has to be the fact that it's right by Oakland Hills, which has some of the nicest weather, views, and houses in the Bay Area. But, people go up to the hills to steal stuff, cause there isn't anything else to steal in their own neighborhoods.

At one point in San Francisco's colorful not-so-distant history, the Federal Government decided to put up a bunch of high rises for low-income rent. But, about 10-15 years after they went up and got filled in, they had to evict everyone and completely gut and remodel all the buildings because they were so dead. Nothing worked in them, and 10-15 years isnt that old for a house, especially a big building like that.

Berkely, being a college town, had/has a lot of rent control, as the students need low rent housing. But, low rent housing attracts low-rent kinds of people. So, the place got pretty bad. I think it's getting a lot better, but that's after a couple of mayor changes.

So...ya....some places get pretty bad around here