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Hahha. That guys house is actually HUGE. It has a two car garage for God's sake. Take a look at it on streetview. It's the red house on the right side of the street:
I used to live on one of the steep hills in Lakeview directly up the hill a few feet away from the infamous Randolph Street. We could literally never walk down the street growing up despite the hill's force of gravity naturally pulling you towards the worst of the worst part of the hood as soon as you step outside the front door.
You're right that you can't judge a hood by the way it looks because Lakeview was just as bad as any hood in America. In the early 90's, one single corner on Randolph Street had 12 homicides throughout the course of the year. That is a full one fifth of the 1999 homicide count for the much more murderous Oakland when the town had 60 homicides.
yea all my family lives mainly in west palm beach which 1 or 2 cities up north away from ft lauderdale.
The whole south florida is nice my dude. I could really see myself living down their, or at least having a crib in new york and miami like most new yorkers do lol.
But i believe ft lauderdale and carol city are some of the few neighborhoods that jamaicans have higher numbers then haitians.
Many of the worst neighborhoods in Chicago look identical to many of the best, on the residential streets at least.
True. Hard to make brick look bad Funny thing is some of these rough neighborhoods have flowers and such. But it goes to-show many in these areas are hard workong people who want to enjoy the beauty of life I travel through them for work daily and I see lots of bad but also many examples of good
I've heard of portrero hill and huntspoint and bayview but those pics that you just posted is what I call la bella ghetto. The beautiful ghetto. They kinda look like pics of east LA that I've seen with the steep hills and Spanish architecture. I'd call this a tie between SF and LA.
There's no way SF or LA have the best looking ghettos. And those pictures are specifically of an area of SF that has high crime but which looks pretty nice. That's not the worst area of SF (it was the worst or close to it back in the 80s and 90s, when things were far worse), currently the bad parts of places like Hunters point and Potrero Hill look much worse than that because they're bigger, poorer, and largely comprised of crappy old public housing rather than single family homes that are well-maintained.
Here's one of the worst parts of SF, the Sunnydale projects:
Actually, neither of those looks too bad.
I'd just like to add in an area on Staten Island called Arlington with a fairly high crime rate that doesn't look bad. Along Holland Avenue a few blocks away, you always hear of reports of shootings, and at South Avenue & Arlington Place, there are a lot of intimidating-looking people hanging out.
Here's a couple of pictures:
Along Holland Avenue (which IMO, is the worst part of the area), it looks more run-down, but some homes still look nice over there.
The funny thing is that I used these pictures in the NYC thread talking about "Nicest-looking areas".
Definitely worse looking than those pictures of Lakeview, that's for sure.
That actually wouldn't look too bad if somebody picked up the trash and mowed the grass.
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