
12-28-2009, 02:10 AM
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Location: USA
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Originally Posted by ThroatGuzzler
If you actually read the title it says "Most ghetto VISUALLY", meaning not a palm tree paradise with sandy beaches down the street but rather a cold, rainy, polluted, decrepit, and depressed city such as Detroit or Cleveland..
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Well if you're not an idiot, you can see the "ghetto" through the bad areas that happen to have tropical flora nearby.
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12-28-2009, 02:26 AM
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Location: Gotham
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Last edited by TT1; 12-28-2009 at 02:40 AM..
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12-28-2009, 03:06 AM
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Location: Denver CO.
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No officer he wasn't decapitated, I see palm trees. Serious gang problem? No officer. thank God for those palm trees.
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12-28-2009, 04:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Scott5280
No officer he wasn't decapitated, I see palm trees. Serious gang problem? No officer. thank God for those palm trees.
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Lol.
Maybe they should try sending some palms up to the "real" ghettos of these other cities to help with their crime! I mean since we now have the formula: palm trees + impoverished community = no ghetto. They should have sent Cleveland and Detroit some palms years ago, and then all would have been fine and dandy with no crime or danger, just like in LA and Miami. If only they had figured it out sooner!
Of course we're forgetting about the warm weather issue, because that makes a difference too. Hmmmm. This creates a dilemma. I mean look at how safe and devoid of poverty all the warm weather favelas are in Brazil! Probably b/c they're single family homes - there's no way they could be dangerous.
I hear Ciudad Juarez in Mexico has the highest murder rate in the world right now. It must somehow not be getting any of Mexico's warm weather. I mean since the rest of Mexico is so safe and all.
Yeah, I totally see why its so hard for some people to imagine rough neighborhoods existing where there is warm weather and palm trees. I mean how could a ghetto possibly develop when the sky's not overcast? 
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12-28-2009, 05:40 AM
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Originally Posted by jman650
Lol.
Maybe they should try sending some palms up to the "real" ghettos of these other cities to help with their crime! I mean since we now have the formula: palm trees + impoverished community = no ghetto. They should have sent Cleveland and Detroit some palms years ago, and then all would have been fine and dandy with no crime or danger, just like in LA and Miami. If only they had figured it out sooner!
Of course we're forgetting about the warm weather issue, because that makes a difference too. Hmmmm. This creates a dilemma. I mean look at how safe and devoid of poverty all the warm weather favelas are in Brazil! Probably b/c they're single family homes - there's no way they could be dangerous.
I hear Ciudad Juarez in Mexico has the highest murder rate in the world right now. It must somehow not be getting any of Mexico's warm weather. I mean since the rest of Mexico is so safe and all.
Yeah, I totally see why its so hard for some people to imagine rough neighborhoods existing where there is warm weather and palm trees. I mean how could a ghetto possibly develop when the sky's not overcast? 
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There are people in San Diego who believe that the reason for their low crime rate is because the weather brings out "joy-joy feelings" in everyone, while Detroit's crime rate is due to their cold winters.
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12-28-2009, 06:53 AM
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Originally Posted by SEAandATL
There are people in San Diego who believe that the reason for their low crime rate is because the weather brings out "joy-joy feelings" in everyone, while Detroit's crime rate is due to their cold winters.
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Lol funny how that same principal doesn't apply when we're looking at Newton, MA or Stamford, CT (or for that matter Boston or Toronto) and comparing them to Atlanta, Dallas and New Orleans. I'm afraid they're overlooking just about every relevant factor.
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12-28-2009, 09:09 AM
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Houma, Louisiana:
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12-28-2009, 09:32 AM
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Climate has little to do with crime, it's socioeconomic factors..but that's for another day.
But I think you are failing to realize what people mean Jman. They are saying from what they've seen VISUALLY it doesn't look as BAD (not in terms of pure crime numbers) than cities without palm trees or in tropical climates. That's it. Nothing more. Done.
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12-28-2009, 10:48 AM
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Location: LawnGuyLin
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Well what looks worse VISUALLY like the thread says some 70 year old tenemant building with rats and roaches everywhere, graffiti ALL over the wall people, taking dumps on the stairs because the plumbing doesnt work, smell of every drug you can think of in the air. OR a tiny 1 family home where its burining hot every day, and it floods when it rains.
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12-28-2009, 12:04 PM
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Location: Gotham
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Originally Posted by WeSoHood
Climate has little to do with crime, it's socioeconomic factors..but that's for another day.
But I think you are failing to realize what people mean Jman. They are saying from what they've seen VISUALLY it doesn't look as BAD (not in terms of pure crime numbers) than cities without palm trees or in tropical climates. That's it. Nothing more. Done.
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I guess Jakarta is visually not bad at all. After all, there is a palm tree! Not to mention the sun is shining. Oooo, purdy!

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