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I am from Detroit so I am probably biased towards the home team. I want the bragging rights.
Ghetto as an adjective is fine with me. Language evolves. It's the nature of the beast. Adapt or get left behind. (perhaps some of those "hatin" on hip hop could benefit from this advice also)
Those describing the demographic of areas by saying "they like their hip hop culture" might as well just drop an N bomb (this is what you would do among friends, right?).
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Originally Posted by JakilaTheHun...Washington DC - ...I don't see how it could even remotely qualify as "most ghetto"
I could give a lot of reasons why DC is "ghetto"...
1. Marion Barry
2. Marion Barry
3. Marion Barry
Jakila, I agree in spirit with what you are saying but at the same time you need only to read about Marion Barry to understand how DC could be perceived as "ghetto" (I say Marion Barry as an easy way to drive the point home but really a lot of DC's issues have to do with the Fed Gov).
LOL I used to play Ice Hockey in Cahokia. The area isnt great but it certainly isnt in the '10 most ghetto cities' category.
Cahokia isn't a city either. it is a small poor quasi-rural town that is rough. Its neighbor, East St. Louis at least USED to be a city before everyone either got scared off or otherwise left.
do you not live in illinois?
have you been there?
hmm if memory serves me correctly i was there 3 weeks ago on 220th so...
your gettting info from the blessid 2000 census times have changed buddy in the last 9 years...
I live in Flint MI and it is definatly ghetto. I go to Detroit and Saginaw and Saginaw is more country and ghetto than Flint. Detroit isnt as ghetto as people think it is just very very crime ridden.All of these cities are on the easr side of the state that has been riddled with unemployment from the auto situation. I read alot about crime stats and cultures of different states an cities and I could probably say you wont find a worst stretch of 100 miles in America than you can on I75 from Saginaw to Flint to Detroit for crime.And i am refering to ghetto as ignorant, loud,quick to solve a problem with a fight or gun.People dont hear alot about Saginaw because national crime stats arent usually reported on cities with less than 70,000 to 100,00o people.But there are lots of very nice areas in Michigan even around these bad cities.Also on the west side of the state is a very small city named Benton Harbor that if they reported crime stats for cities that small could possibly be the worst place in the country.So MI isnt all about cars and lakes.
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