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Cities with palm trees and beaches look less urban and more rural; this leads to the notion that this place may be not as ghetto. Ghetto being associated with urban slums; urban slums being associated with the "concrete jungle", simply refer to anywhere in the Bronx or Detroit. A place like Oakland or Miami seems more rural due to the fact it has an abundance of palm trees and other non urban characteristics.. is what i'm saying. Which looks more depressing.. a frozen urban slum with rampant pollution, vacant brick (half demolished) run down lots, or a palm tree infested Oakland with stucco houses; accompanied with some nice warm weather. Which looks less appealing to you?
There are some REALLY destroyed and rundown looking stucco houses in FLA and CA, that look almost as bad as the brick buildings up north. But I'll admit, the ghettos up north are insanely messed up.
Rural to you, but to someone who grew up with them and sees them on every street, NO. Now trees like pine trees are extremely rural to me because I am all around palm trees. Remember different geographical area qualify for different meanings with words.
This Proves my case for Cleveland Even More, Cincy's OTR was pretty bad but its a lot of places like that in Cleveland like 55th and cedar, carneigie, and its a street in East Cleveland with literally all abandonded homes on it and before you say East Cleveland is a different city CLeveland is in the process of combining the two cities. And East Cleveland is 30-45% abandoned homes.
Maybe if they painted those buildings in Camden and Detroit and East Cleveland pink and robin's egg blue and pale yellow and light purple and white, they wouldn't look so.... uh, ghetto!
There is nothing wrong with that picture. It shows true diversity in architecture, and you do NOT FIND much like this anywhere outside of New York City or Boston in this country. Obviously you do not know much about Over The Rhine, and what is has to offer. What, you think you know it because you once lived there and have been through it a few times, or maybe not even that, you read articles on it and think you know everything. Sorry, Over The Rhine is a true gem, and you don't find really much like it in this country.
Once again, your picture does not even serve justice. You can see in both pictures there is construction going on. Really?! Its an area seeing tens of millions in new investment in just 2009 alone.
You mean Hamsterdam. And to me it doesn't. Those rows don't look like Baltimore rows.
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