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I think you could have added Seattle to your list, White Center can be pretty scary along with portions of Capitol Hill. Overall is Seattle scary, no, but every city has its bad neighborhoods.
Yeah, you have to watch out for those hipster Vespa gangs on Capitol Hill. You can spot them by their gang outfits, skinny jeans and ironic shirts.
The cities that I have been to that look the most "Scary" overall are:
Camden, NJ
East Cleveland, OH
East St. Louis, IL
Just below that are Detroit and than Cleveland but those both at least have a few small decent areas that arent scary. Those 3 are all very scary places especially at night. Camden has a lot of little dark streets and alleys and run down row houses with gunshots all around. East Cleveland is pretty bad too, lots of abandoned old brick apartments and falling down houses and most of the buildings have bars on the windows or are boarded up. East St. Louis is more of like a ghosttown and mostly vacant with small, s***** little houses which most are either rubble or boarded up.
most of the cities i thought were scary had areas around downtown in the old city that seem to be as bad as anywhere you could go. imo, if the heart of the city is that bad and was too bad to be cleaned up for image, there's no telling what goes on there. of the places i've been that fit that bill...
washington
detroit
cincinnati
st. louis
areas around downtown brooklyn
haven't been to philly or baltimore, but from what i've heard they have some wild downtown areas as well.
cle440,
i don't think having a few decent or even wealthy areas makes it any better for the city. imo it encourages segregation on a dualistic scale (money+race) and inflates racial, social and representational issues. a few powerful neighborhoods can keep a city in a rut with "old money".
I really don't think St. Louis is that scary. Parts of it maybe, but any part you would go to a tourist probably isn't that scary.
East St. Louis is scary at night. My sister and brother-in-law took a wrong turn and went into Illinois one night. They had to call Dad to figure out how to get back to St. Louis to get to the Scottrade Center. East St. Louis is mostly just empty.
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