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My neighborhood of Forest Hill in Newark (well I'm not officially moved in yet, but give it a little over 2 weeks) has beautiful, well maintained architecture. There's a section of the neighborhood where old Victorian mansions very much compliment the city.
Forest Hill houses--
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Ok, maybe this isn't necessarily a ghetto, but they're in the commonly referred "ghetto city" of Newark.
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Weequahic on the other hand is a neighborhood in Newark with a pretty high crime rate (it's not the worst part of Newark though) but the homes seem to be very well maintained and deceiving.
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Forest Hill is an awesome neighborhood, hope you enjoy it. Nice pictures all around pretty much added to my Jersey pics lol .
I'm just curious though... what consistently makes poor neighborhoods on the west coast seem inviting compared to the equivalent neighborhoods on the east coast to east coasters?
well, if we're talking ghetto vs ghetto, then I think its because the West has much newer buildings in general and so comparable places in the Easet have dilapidated worse simply because they are much older.
Also, there seem to be many huge apartment blocks for lower income folks in the East and that does not exist in the West.
Why do some of the poor neighborhoods in the east coast/midwest have huge houses?
I'm sure this has probably been said before but I'm too lazy to read through the thread to confirm. But the basic answer is, these neighborhoods didn't start out as slums, they used to be upper-middle-class (if not outright upper-class) parts of the city. Most of those "huge houses" have since been subdivided into several rinky-dink apartments.
I'm just curious though... what consistently makes poor neighborhoods on the west coast seem inviting compared to the equivalent neighborhoods on the east coast to east coasters?
well, if we're talking ghetto vs ghetto, then I think its because the West has much newer buildings in general and so comparable places in the Easet have dilapidated worse simply because they are much older.
Also, there seem to be many huge apartment blocks for lower income folks in the East and that does not exist in the West.
It does in the cities...
there used to be a ****load of ugly ass projects in SF
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