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Old 03-24-2010, 11:58 PM
 
Location: Washington, DC
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I'm glad the op wrote that gritty is not necessarily bad. Brooklyn is one of my favorite places on Earth, but I agree you could call it "gritty." "Gritty" isn't bad in my book. There's a difference between "gritty" and "decay".
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Old 03-25-2010, 12:18 AM
 
Location: Cedar Park, TX
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Houston has some pretty seedy parts to it for sure
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Old 03-25-2010, 01:00 AM
 
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Basically most of the major and industrial cities in the Northeast and the Rustbelt (Great Lakes Region).

Philly, Baltimore, NYC, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Camden, Youngstown, Gary, Lorain, Toledo, Chester PA, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Hartford, Flint, Newark, Trenton, etc.

I don't really consider many places in the south as "gritty" at least by my definition, but are a few in the south and west.
The problem with your opinion is that Baltimore is not in the Northeast and There are a few cities in Virginia that are gritty such as Richmond-Petersburg, North Carolina also have Gritty Cities along with certain cities in Georgia, Tennessee, and Louisiana...
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Old 03-25-2010, 02:17 AM
 
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Yeah, Petersburg VA is gritty.
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Old 03-25-2010, 01:01 PM
 
Location: moving again
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The problem with your opinion is that Baltimore is not in the Northeast and There are a few cities in Virginia that are gritty such as Richmond-Petersburg, North Carolina also have Gritty Cities along with certain cities in Georgia, Tennessee, and Louisiana...
Baltimore is in the northeast though.
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Old 03-25-2010, 04:29 PM
 
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Baltimore is in the northeast though.
Wishful thinking but it is not in the Northeast and if that were true then Virginia is in the Northeast especially Richmond and Norfolk.........
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Old 03-25-2010, 05:04 PM
 
Location: Underneath the Pecan Tree
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Wishful thinking but it is not in the Northeast and if that were true then Virginia is in the Northeast especially Richmond and Norfolk.........
Southern location; Northeastern culture.
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Old 03-25-2010, 05:10 PM
 
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Southern location; Northeastern culture.
Baltimore-Washington Corridor sure but Western Maryland and Maryland Eastern Shore is definitely Southern.
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Old 03-25-2010, 05:27 PM
 
Location: moving again
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Baltimore-Washington Corridor sure but Western Maryland and Maryland Eastern Shore is definitely Southern.
Hold on. NO. Western Maryland will never and has never been southern. Take it from a native. Central Maryland is culturally northeastern, Southern and Eastern shore Maryland are southern, and the West is Appalachian. Learn something about your state before you say wrong information about it.

I can't get over that - "definitely southern" - that's a first, and to be honest you made me laugh. i hate when people talk about something they don't know, yet do it in such an authoritarian way to make one think they are right.
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Old 03-25-2010, 08:38 PM
 
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Hold on. NO. Western Maryland will never and has never been southern. Take it from a native. Central Maryland is culturally northeastern, Southern and Eastern shore Maryland are southern, and the West is Appalachian. Learn something about your state before you say wrong information about it.

I can't get over that - "definitely southern" - that's a first, and to be honest you made me laugh. i hate when people talk about something they don't know, yet do it in such an authoritarian way to make one think they are right.
My goodness....I agree with you

Baltimore is still very gritty, though........
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