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Judging a city by the view out the window while riding Amtrak is supposed to offer insight? Says more about how people don't like living near the tracks than anything else. One of the funnier things that happens is 'ghetto' is somehow confused with 'abandoned'... as L.A. homers are always happy to point out, the ghetto in L.A. looks more like a suburb than the urban ruins of the northeast, but it's the killing and drug dealing and such that make a place a ghetto, not the condition of the buildings.
Since the thread is still about the worst looking ghettos I concede that urban decay looks scary, and Philly has some of the coolest looking examples of urban decay anywhere. One great example, the Divine Lorraine: http://g.co/maps/gm6r2 - but don't be fooled, this area is being gentrified - rapidly and at a huge scale - right now.
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Originally Posted by SuperMario
Agreed. If it's just worst looking I'd say NYC (Bronx, Uptown, North Brooklyn) and north eastern cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia etc
Last edited by one more thing; 11-19-2011 at 07:41 AM..
That's a damn lie. I've seen grown thugged out men walking toy dogs in the hood before. Most people are friendly in the hood too. If your entire image of the hood is nothing but tatted up gangsters shooting people day in night, shoot if your image of the hood is anhything but a place filled with mostly normal poor folks and a handful of degenerates than you need to lay off the hollywood movies.
Contrary to sheltered beleif more people in the hood have real jobs than sell crack. There's more jesus freaks that go to church 3 times a week and have cookouts and bible theology debates than armed robbers.
Lmao.
Thats true about big arse thugged out nikkas walking little dogs
In my opinion:
I'm going by metro area, not specific city
1. Baltimore
2. Chicago (because of Gary)
3. Detroit
4. Philadelphia/Camden
5. Saint Louis
6. New York (East Orange)
FYI: Atlanta, GA was the first city in America to build & open public housing projects (Techwood Homes), even before New York City's First Houses projects. Techwood opened in 1935 just before First House. And in 2009, Atlanta became the 1st city of it's size to tear down ALL public housing projects inside the city limits. Atlanta today (supposedly) currently has NO housing projects. Techwood Homes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia End near for Atlanta housing projects - US news - Life - msnbc.com
I actualy think you should make gary number one and baltimore off the list!
Not that bad, try Gary Indiana go to random streets on maps google.
nah Gary looks WAY worse in person than google maps. In my opinion ofcoursre. One would actually have to step foot in that city to really expirience it.
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