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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned North Philadelphia. Camden and Baltimore are also terrible, but I've never seen anything that compares to the density and expanse of North Philly's ghettos.
Camden, NJ which is right across from Philadelphia. I have absolutely no idea why people would choose to live in such places. Here in Middle America, you could probably get a nice apartment in a very safe small town, near to Des Moines with virtually no crime for about the same price.
Do you understand that many people who live in places like Camden can't afford to live in other, much nicer, places?
Once again, maybe I am naive but I don't understand why people would choose to live in these crapholes. I have traveled all over this country and there are SO MANY possibilities, places you can move to where you could reinvent yourself. Driving through Kansas once, I remember thinking, just in that state alone, there are so many different places you could move to which are totally safe, offer great quality of life, very low cost of living, decent economy, I don't get it!
Are you really this dumb? It's not the buildings that make a ghetto but the PEOPLE.
What a shame. i really like Philadelphia too. I knew it had some scary sections, but those were pretty bad. It doesn't change my opinion of Philly though. It's still a cool city, warts and all.
On the other end of the state, Pittsburgh has some nasty neighborhoods that i found myself in. One was Homestead's main street section. The whole town is boarded up except for the nice new shopping center along the riverfront. And across the river, is Braddock. A once neat little historic city that literally looks like it got left in the 60's and hasn't been touched since. And I'm not sure what the neighborhood is called, I want to say the Hills or Hill district of the city was a little scary looking. But I never really felt in danger. Not that I'd get out of my car and just start walking around. Definitely not at night.
And closer to home, if anyone is familiar with the Manchester neighborhood of Richmond, VA, it's pretty scary. It has it's own downtown feel in the shadow of modern downtown Richmond across the river. It's storefronts are all boarded up and nothing but rough looking individuals roaming the streets at all hours. It's slowly becoming gentrified one building at a time. It has the potential to be a real hip neighborhood. I wish I had pictures to post, but as I said earlier, I was too afraid to get out and walk around.
lol those areas in dc look like "regular" areas in many parts of the south. i don't know if its been posted but parts of east ny are a throwback to the 80's IMO.
What I notice in the Northeastern cities is that they need green. If old and abandoned buildings were torn down, and trees/shrubs planted, it really wouldn't be so bad, more low income, but not really ghetto. When I visited my friend in Chicago almost 5 years ago, there were a lot more parks, lawns and trees than what I've seen, even in Manhattan.
With the exception of Central Park, of course, but coming down the Hudson, from Yonkers on, it looks nasty, to me, but I have to live around some nature. I'd lose my mind in some of these places.
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