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Philadelphia is one big ghetto,a poor representation of an American city it is filthy.
If Philadelphia is ghetto and filthy I guess Detroit, New Orleans, Washington DC, New York City, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc. are all filthy ghetto cities as well. It plays a major roll in American History, its a good representation of an American city in my opinion. Philadelphia seems clean whenever I go there.
Harvey, Illinois definitely deserves to be on a list like this. There's high crime and unemployment, rampant corruption (17 cops were busted recently for colluding with drug dealers), and a general wasteland atmosphere. I can't find any pictures of the town, I guess because it's located so far from anything decent that most people driving through aren't terrible shocked by the decay. I've driven through a few times over my life and I'll never forget driving down one of the main streets and seeing boarded up houses and businesses + empty lots returning to nature for miles and miles. It's also the location of the infamous eyesore Dixie Square Mall, which was open for 12 years and has been abandoned for 31 years, and nobody has yet come up with the money to tear it down.
Harvey is bad, the USPS stopped delivering to a part of it calling it the most dangerous block in the nation. Is that incident with the police you are referring to the one where they provided security for drug dealers making major transactions?
Also if Harvey makes it, I think Ford Heights and Maywood should as well.
Philadelphia is one big ghetto,a poor representation of an American city it is filthy.
Don't you come up with anything new? You posted the same thing not even 2 days ago.
Every city has bad areas. For people who live in well to do areas, you are not better than people living in the ghetto. But I guess only life lessons can teach you that.
Springfield, MA should be on everyone's list. That place is an absolute wreck.
It was ranked 40th in crime, so there are quite a bit of cities that are worse. 15 homicides isn't that bad when you consider a city with 50,000 less people in Youngstown had 42 homicides.
It was ranked 40th in crime, so there are quite a bit of cities that are worse. 15 homicides isn't that bad when you consider a city with 50,000 less people in Youngstown had 42 homicides.
I'm not a fan of crime rates but these numbers don't lie.
Youngstown: 57 per 100,000
Springfield: 9 per 100,000
If this is correct you are 6 times as likely to be killed in Youngstown.
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