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View Poll Results: Pahokee needs (to) _____ to draw tourism.
"safety and real security for citizens, city workers, and tourists" 2 16.67%
"nothing" "Whats wrong with Downtown Pahokee?" 0 0%
"nice resort I can be proud of and feel safe at." 0 0%
"a few fat renta-cops from a cheap security agency on bicycles and go carts should do the trick!" 0 0%
"build a wall around the dangerous area's" 1 8.33%
"fix the movie theatre!" (that'll get people in!) 0 0%
deploy the national guard 5 41.67%
options 1 and 3 4 33.33%
Voters: 12. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-04-2009, 01:21 AM
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Exclamation Would you ___ "in Pahokee?"

This thread is for people familiar with downtown Pahokee. I am asking because a couple of people seem to think that Lake Worth is just as dangerous, with which whom I fully disagree.
If you live downtown Pahokee, feel free to interject.
The question is "would you ___ in Downtown Pahokee."
Walk anywhere in the city at night alone?
Walk anywhere in the city with two friends alone?
Go jogging?
Go shopping?
Hire your entire staff?
Leave your kids at day care?
Try to work?
Walk your dog?
Drive slow with the windows down?
Get out and hang in the parking lot with friends?
Let your wife go grocery shopping alone?
Let your child go skateboarding?
Take your parents for a daily outting?
Go on a vacation every year?

If you said no to any of these questions, please give a detailed answer as to why. Please back up your statements with facts.

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Old 02-04-2009, 12:38 PM
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You might get better answers if this thread is moved to the West Palm Beach/Boca thread.

I for one do not know much about Pahokee, but from passing through a few times, I don't think it's a place people go unless they have business or family there.


I do agree though, that claims about Lake Worth are too general. Lake Worth is both very nice in parts and awful in parts.
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Old 02-05-2009, 09:39 PM
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I don't know much about Pahokee,but I do remember one time driving north to Orlando on US 27 and deciding to do something different and taking the east side of the lake route by Pahokee and seeing some of the scariest looking neighborhoods I've ever seen.I've only gone straight up US 27 since.
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Never been, but our pastor at church lived in Pahokee Florida in the 1970s until 1986. He never speaks to much of it, but I guess it was nice back then.

He used to refer to it as "the southeast side of Lake Okeechobee".
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Old 02-09-2009, 08:15 AM
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Thanks guys please keep posting. I need all the feedback I can get.
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I can't give you cold, hard facts.. just word of mouth and my own experience driving through a few times.. for whatever that's worth.. prob not much. I was born/raised in Florida and my family has always told me to stay away from Pahokee, that it was full of crime and drugs and people living in severe poverty. I have driven through a couple of times, traveling to and from the west coast and WPB area, by myself over the years and this is what I noticed: roads were poorly maintained- I hit a lot of pot holes and a lot of unevenly paved roads. I have driven through some small towns in Florida and was surprised that the roads in this particular town were soo poorly maintained. Buildings were also poorly maintained.. and yes it looked like a poor area, in general. My daughter was with me once.. it was her birthday and she had a couple of friends with her.. we were moving slowly because of traffic and all of us were gazing out the windows waiting and wouldn't you know but we passed a car pulled over by an officer. We were just gazing.. thinking this was harmless and out of no where the officer pulls his weapon on the driver. Talk about shock.. lol. We were just feet away. Then the driver jumps back in his car and takes off but the officer puts his weapon away and walks back to his own patrol car and drives after him. I'm glad my daughter and the other kids didn't have to witness someone being shot but I can't believe the officer just let the guy drive away. Anyways, I'm sure this kind of thing is normal in a bigger city but I've never been in that situation before. I've lived in Columbus, GA and traveled to Atlanta.. I've lived in Scottsdale, AZ and went in and out of Phoenix regularly.. I've visited NYC a few times and lived in Germany 2 years.. visited Frankfurt regularly.. but I never experienced a scene like that before. The real kicker is that the kids had to witness it.. But anyways.. this is what I have to contribute to your Pahokee thread, lol. Not much. I would definately do some research before considering living there. I would never live there.. not after what I've seen/experienced or after years of warnings about the place.
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Pahokee is like a third world country, with county bus service. It is as bad as anyplace in the islands.
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Pahokee is like a third world country, with county bus service. It is as bad as anyplace in the islands.
so true, i have lived in the islands, nassau, and pahoke from gmaps look just like it.
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