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Growing up on the east coast, I was used to urban poverty having a certain "look" of run down brick rowhouses. It wasn't until I moved to Houston that I noted urban poverty can look different: decaying clapboard shotgun houses like one would find in rural areas, unkempt 60s-era suburban tract housing and garden apartments as well as rusty mobile homes lining roads with ditches - all inside the city limits. With these "newer" cities that folks claim have no ghettos, I wonder if it's just that those ghettos simply look different? For example, here's what ghettos look like in Austin:
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For the younger folk here, I'd like to point out that "ghetto" and "slum" are two different things, even if they often go hand-in-hand. A ghetto is a part of a city that's occupied mostly by one particular ethnic groups, such as Koreans, blacks, or Jews. It doesn't necessarily have to be a slum, which is a poor, dirty, shabby part of town with lots of substandard housing and crime.
If you like ghettos, Columbus Georgia might interest you. For a city with a population of 189,000 and 1/3 of it being ghettos, I've never lived in a place with so many ghettos and run down neighborhoods.
Theres a neighborhood off S. Lumpkin rd in between that and the river that is all ghettos, used to be a middle class neighborhood in the 60's. Everything in between Victory Drive and Buena Vista Rd is all ghettos, then the neighborhood around Ilges Rd is ghetto, Decatur Court is one of the highest crime spots in the city which is nearby.
Neighborhoods around Floyd Rd and Buena Vista Rd east of I-185 are mostly ghettos. Talbotton Rd & 12th Ave is all ghetto, the neighborhood by Columbus Technical College is all ghettos, the hoods around 2nd Ave are ghettos... practically half the damn city is ghettos, not 1/3 of it.
Then you have Phenix City in Alabama which is all ghettos except for the north part.
Well not everything below Buena Vista Rd is ghetto. If you're talking about the area west of I-185 then I roll with you. However, east of 185 Buena Vista Rd has middle class black neighborhoods mixed in with run down apartment complexes.
I would say that Oakland Park is still middle class. There are middle class pockets in Benning Hills as well.
For the younger folk here, I'd like to point out that "ghetto" and "slum" are two different things, even if they often go hand-in-hand. A ghetto is a part of a city that's occupied mostly by one particular ethnic groups, such as Koreans, blacks, or Jews. It doesn't necessarily have to be a slum, which is a poor, dirty, shabby part of town with lots of substandard housing and crime.
Minneapolis. Seattle. Really the highly educated northern cities that are primarily caucasian tend to lack ghettos, as least in the traditional sense of the word.
San Antonio, El Paso, and Austin are not major cities, Seattle is on the cusp. As far as San Diego, maybe you are right but not sure
Relative to NYC, absolutely not, while the rate may be lessor in NYC there are far more ghettos relative to SF, probably any other city just by its sheer size.
And on metro, agree many impovershed (not all) have been pushed into the burbs of SF.
While I agree there are ghettos (as i said in the original post) to me me among major urban cities (to me I was more thinking Boston/NYC/Philly/DC/Chicago/LA/SF) to me it seems the least, maybe Boston next. I said they all do, I wish Philly had less personally, it isnt a bad thing to have fewer...
san antonio is the 7th largest u.s major city and is one of the biggest cities by square miles.......
Its big because of its size in square miles, but its still a mid-major
but its larger than dallas in population. its like 1.3 million its ranked 7th in population i dont see how its not a major city yea it doesnt have the major city skyline but its still a major city
Portland (ME and Ore.) and Seattle have very few poor, dangerous areas
Denver comes out about the same as Portland for crime rate. Seattle a bit lower than both.
San Jose and San Diego come out even lower. Some of posters have shown some bad areas of each city, but compared to just about any other large American city, they must be very tame.
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