[quote]waltrulz wrote:
Yes I have. But I hate your shirt…[/quote]
I hate your avatar.
So we’re even!
[quote]threewhitelights wrote:
StevenF wrote:
Its depressing.
qft. [/quote]
Yeah, it’s pretty depressing. The stats seem to show things getting worse too, 1% of Americans behind bars, graduation rates declining…
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
Driving down Penn Ave. through East Liberty on your way to downtown Pittsburgh is the same way.
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I used to live 2 apartment buildings north of Penn & Negley, next to those fancy new low income houses. I define the word ghetto.
[quote]xXSeraphimXx wrote:
Most of you that are talking about what goes on in ghettos do not know what you are talking about, this is not the movies.
if you mind your own fucking business nothing will happen.
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The ‘ghettos’ are all over-rated. Glorified Hollywood BS. I spent a great deal of time working South Central L.A. during night. I’ve gone into “bad” housing propjects like Imperial Courts, Jordan Downs, etc. I’m still here so that should say something. If you ask me, it’s kind of peaceful down there. Well, compared to how you would imagine it to be anyways.
I used to think South FL had some bad areas, till I went to Detroit.
[quote]xXSeraphimXx wrote:
Most of you that are talking about what goes on in ghettos do not know what you are talking about, this is not the movies. I live in a rough part of LA the heart of a certain gang, with rival gangs all around but, the thing is if you mind your own fucking business nothing will happen. Someone might try to sell you drugs but, here is an idea say no.
Where I live you see helicopters everyday and here the cops and ambulances flying by but, it is usually gang on gang crime. There is always a few innocent people that are caught in the crossfire but, the chances of you being killed are slim.
Like I said if you mind your business nothing will happen, if you go looking for trouble acting hard then you will be checked. I have lived in the same neighborhood my whole life and have only once been tried to be robbed, I say try because it as one guy that tried to rob me and a friend with a small pocket knife, as soon as he pointed it at me my friend knocked his ass out.
I will say one thing if you are walking down a street and see a group of gangsters than keep your head down and walk that is the only time I am nervous in most bad neighborhoods and to HH keeping your cell phone charge will not do a damn thing, once you are being chased you are fucked.[/quote]
+1 agreed. the troubles there if you want to find it, but it is possible to avoid it.
I’ve been to Newark,NJ back when it was the murder capital of the US and walked through the ghettos in Atlantic City. I almost crapped myself.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Rattler wrote:
Iron Dwarf wrote:
I lived in a West Philly ghetto for 10 months while in college. Up to that time it was the worst and best period of my life. I grew so much as a human being and a man there. You never allow yourself to relax. You learn to adapt to a hostile environment.
I have a book’s worth of life in the hood stories I’d love to write down one day. Some are terrifying and some are fucking hysterical.
I’ll end by saying I’m lucky to have survived a particular incident. 
Give us a sneak preview 
I’m planning on writing a blog about those experiences… when I can find a good chunk of time.
I will say this, though… I wouldn’t do now the things I did then (in the early 80’s). Not everyone was carrying a gun back then.
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Yea, mostly shooting the fair ones back then. Well aside from the occasional new report of someone being gummed to death by a crackhead.
[quote]meangenes wrote:
Yea, mostly shooting the fair ones back then. Well aside from the occasional new report of someone being gummed to death by a crackhead.[/quote]
Gummed to death? Like in a drive-by flossing?
[quote]Sloth wrote:
elano wrote:
I thought I saw some bad ghettos around middle GA cities until I went to Atlanta.
Yep.
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The absolute, honest to God, truth.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Seriously, don’t go. Cops often abandon whole areas to gangs nowadays. You could very easily be swarmed and robbed/killed. Even if there are cops, you’d most likely be killed or robbed.
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Oh My God!!! this was my point in another thread.
cops cruise around these places but the ydo not do anything they will show up after the fact.
personally and this is from me growing up in a very bad part of phoenix I grew up in a gang ridden area of the ghetto.
I still have family and I still go to the hood every day I still live there and work there but I sleep out in a rual area.
this has got to be the dumbest thing that anyone can think to do.
you have never been in a bad neighborhood,most likly grew up a pretty good and un-eventful life.
you are very lucky that you have not experianced that other life.
and its not a zoo and frankly,I am not upset about this but the idea of going to a “poor” neighborhood just to see what its like and then go home,is really offensive.
but a tourist need not be in these areas tourists do not know where to get help if needed they do not know any means of exscape
its inviting bad things to happen
just be lucky and watch documentaries
watch training day
that movie is actually quite accurate of that mentality and the gang life,for a fictional film
[quote]MsM wrote:
Sloth wrote:
elano wrote:
I thought I saw some bad ghettos around middle GA cities until I went to Atlanta.
Yep.
The absolute, honest to God, truth.[/quote]
My good friend is an Atlanta police officer and I recently went down from Pennsylvania to visit him. On a Thursday me and my buddy who traveled with me wanted to see a real Ghetto. He replies “You wanna see a fuckin’ ghetto?, Get in the car…”
He took us (around 6pm) to Bankhead Atlanta. Holy hell. Bankhead is the worst of the worst, to be more precise “Bowen Homes” is a huge project area in Bankhead which is literally suicide if you are a white guy (I don’t give a fuck how big you are) and decide to walk in there after 1am. “Drugs and robberies are laughed at in this area” my friend tells us. “They take a backseat to Murders”. In Bankhead they are all too common.
[quote]Rattler wrote:
For the europeans on here. Are there places like this in the 1st world countries of europe? England, Germany ect…
Are they as bad as the American craptowns?[/quote]
…not in Holland, and i don’t think there are in Western Europe. Sure, bad areas exist everywhere, but police staying out of whole city blocks is not something i’ve ever heard. Guns aren’t readily available in Europe, i think that has a lot to do with it. Yay guncontrol! [/jk]
[quote]ephrem wrote:
Rattler wrote:
For the europeans on here. Are there places like this in the 1st world countries of europe? England, Germany ect…
Are they as bad as the American craptowns?
…not in Holland, and i don’t think there are in Western Europe. Sure, bad areas exist everywhere, but police staying out of whole city blocks is not something i’ve ever heard. Guns aren’t readily available in Europe, i think that has a lot to do with it. Yay guncontrol! [/jk]
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The UK has what they call “estates” - which are the UK ghettos.
Basically council houses with lots of scum living off the government. Some can be dodgy, some are just poor areas.
I’m from South Africa - used to live in a average middle-class neighbourhood, but it’s turned pretty shitty.
It’s mainly a poor area with some gangs, and people are always talking the place down, but truth be told the criminals all live there and don’t steal from eachother - they steal from the rich. So the crime isn’t bad there at all.
My mom lives out there but when you walk into our place it’s like a diorama - you’d never see it coming judging by the hood (It’s a nice house). I like her living there since, as I said, it’s safer than the “nice” areas.
You’d be wise to stay out of townships though. Would you like a tour of Soweto or Alexandra(pictured above) in Jo’burg?
Bah, here’s Alex - Jo’burg’s one township.
http://www.urbandecay.ca/MAP.htm
Good site
I tried to set you up with a google street view of a good area in Philly to tour, but the link didnt work right…
[quote]esk221 wrote:
I used to think South FL had some bad areas, till I went to Detroit.[/quote]
Detroit definitely has areas you need to avoid, there are whole blocks that look like escape from New york. If you see tires in the road GTFO.
Detroit gets a bad rap though, as there are some really nice areas also.
[quote]Frank Castle wrote:
http://www.urbandecay.ca/MAP.htm
Good site
I tried to set you up with a google street view of a good area in Philly to tour, but the link didnt work right…[/quote]
Wow Frank, great link.
Amazing and depressing, I can’t imagine trying to keep a positive outlook surrounded by all that decay.
If you look at the one for Detroit, there is some amazing architecture. My wife’s grandfather was a professional photographer in the thirties and forties in Detroit, and we have some beautiful framed black and whites of some of these old buildings in their heyday.
[quote]Frank Castle wrote:
http://www.urbandecay.ca/MAP.htm
Good site
I tried to set you up with a google street view of a good area in Philly to tour, but the link didnt work right…[/quote]
Wow…
That was exactly what I was looking for. Also found pics of Charleston where I accidentally ended up once. I was 15 at the time but I was actually scared.
Thanks man.
wow, i was checking out Sao Paulo that place doesnt even look bad. like for the type of place it is, its expected…idk i was expecting worse.
you can google-map holyoke st/wyeth to see my friends house about 5 blocks from me. its not a dangerous neighborhood but it looks ghetto as shit.