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brajohns81-- a number of those pics are not east st. louis, i can tell you for a fact. please cite the source. some of that looks like camden.
I googled "East St. Louis, Illinois ghetto" and that is what I got. Regardless of location they are terrible looking areas. I really don't think there is a worse ghetto area out of East SL, Detroit, Gary, IND.
Years ago you could of added the south Bronx to this category
This last picture looks more like Ethiopia or some South American village
Luckily NYC has put together good urban renewal programs over the years. Here is the South Bronx today(some of these are before and after pictures).
http://multifamilyinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/South-Bronx.jpg (broken link)
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:bnbhHcxhPBl-EM:http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w297/dtoronto/BRONX-1981-2007.jpg&t=1 (broken link)
There is not 1 street there that does not have an abandoned, burned out house on the street. It is an ENTIRE city that is run down. Smart people leave, the old people and mentally challenged will not leave.
You're lucky. I've had the 'pleasure' of living in one of these...
Oh believe me, I know.
Have people who have said Gary, Camden, E. St Louis or have emphatically declared any particular town to have the worst actually BEEN there? Curious - I've travelled all over and like I said, have never been to any of these places (I even lived about 30 minutes from Camden at one point, but a million miles away). Do people actually seek them out?
how can people be so stupid? this is not the USA no building in the USA has this type of architecture, this is Budapest Romania in east Europe
That is one of the pictures I got when I googled East St. Louis, Illinois ghetto. I mean it looks like a building that could be in the USA. Some have that type of architecture.
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