[notpro]

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.

[TriMT7]

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.

[doom1001]

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.

[Tennesseestorm]

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".

[notpro]

Thanks guys please keep posting. I need all the feedback I can get.

[FlaGrrrl]

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.

[Lilybeans]

Pahokee is like a third world country, with county bus service. It is as bad as anyplace in the islands.

[somebodymiami]

Originally Posted by Lilybeans

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.

[merrymeet]

I recently spent a week in Pahokee. Yes it does feel like a third world Country. I can see the beauty it once had or at least I would like to think that it has not been like this forever. I spoke to many locals about the conditions this little town is in. No body seems to know when it got this bad or simply they don't care anymore. How can this happen to a place with such vibrant flowers and some of the most beautiful rich dirt I have ever seen. Could corrupt city officials really do this to a town? Is everyone so "self medicated," that they don't care. How can a hospital, beautiful churches, and so many buildings close down? How can everyone just turn their head and go on their merry little way. It truly sickened me that this is going on just a few miles a while from mansions, billionaires and golf courses. Such a small town in ruins that seems to be doing something right through sports. To much of my surprise one of my favorites of all time Mr. Fred Taylor. I know you have only been retired for a few days but man it is time to get busy on your home. Call I will help you.