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- The main businesses in your neighborhood are churches and liquor stores.
- Police are always in your neighborhood OR they never come when something bad happens
- Your neighborhood is patrolled by the Feds, not the local police force who is scared to death of where you live
- The sound of police sirens, ambulances and or gunshots is the white noise that helps you sleep at night.
- There are highly respected gangsta rappers noted for their authentic street credibility who rep streets in your neighborhood
- It's always a party in your neck of the woods. Every night and sometimes everyday, there are dozens of loitering people outside drinking the foulest liquor out of brown paper or black plastic bags on your street.
- You neighborhood has been featured on a ghetto DVD like Hood 2 Hood or a reality crime show like America's Most Wanted or Cops.
- The median per capita income in your neighborhood is 10K a year although you live in one the most expensive cities in the country.
- Taxi's and pizza delivery men refuse to service your neighborhood
- If you live near a bar or a nightclub, there are local men waiting for you to park taking "tips" to watch your car while you are clubbing.
- Your local Chinese take-out joint or liquor store has inch thick bullet-proof glass and serves you through a turn-style.
- You have a giant blinking box above the street sign where you live. (i.e. Baltimore)
- The streets are completely dead in the daytime with no kids playing outside of people walking their dogs OR the streets are cluttered with loitering people all hours of the day and night.
- Your neighborhood corner store has "EBT" painted in huge letters next to the main store sign.
- You have been asked if want to buy weed or other drugs from prepubescent kids.
- People visiting your residence may need a "pass" from the local roughnecks to even drive or park on you street.
- Things like cigars used for smoking weed (i.e. swishers, dutch masters) and liquor are significantly cheaper in corner stores in your neighborhood compared to stores in surrounding wealthier neighborhoods.
- You make sure you get indoors and stay indoors before the sun goes down.
- People would be crazy to take a jog around your neighborhood like they do in the suburbs.
- You wouldn't dream of visiting the park across the street from where you live.
- The most popular dog where you live is a pitbull.
- Crackheads/homeless drug addicts in your neighborhood aren't scary, they are a pleasant reminder of the God-given gifts of sanity and sobriety.
- All the teenagers in your neighborhood wear matching colors or the same pro sports apparel of the same team that doesn't even play in your city.
- A few feet away from your residence is strictly off limits for walking and or driving.
- You can see the brand new $200+ Nikes kids are getting killed for by looking at the feet of the kids loitering at the end of you street.
Any others?
Last edited by goldenchild08; 02-24-2012 at 12:20 PM..
I will have to disagree with you about the "liquor stores" in the first point. When I traveled to Philadelphia I noticed that liquor stores were some of the only chain businesses in the ghetto. At the same time, the government of Pennsylvania (I didn't mean Philadelphia) believe it or not owns all the wine and spirits stores in the state. Around 2005, all the state "Wine & Spirits" stores in richer areas, not poorer areas, relocated to much larger and brighter stores. The ones in the ghetto are still very outdated and run down. I am amazed that the one in Chester PA still has everything behind a counter (all of them used to be like this YEARS ago) but has no bulletproof glass window. And only one person per shift works at that store. They probably have to keep a shotgun under the counter.
Good point about the liquor stores. I have noticed on Cape Cod that liquor stores seem to be the most common types of stores around (aside from Dunkin Donuts). There is a liquor store every couple of blocks. My kids make a game of counting them. And I wouldn't call anything on the Cape a bad neighborhood (at least not anywhere on the Cape that I have seen).
Personal experiences living in South Minneapolis
Almost everyone has custom wheels
There's a police officer usually on patrol at the gas station
Wake up and notice someone tagged your garage with a big blue "13"
The sounds of sub-woofers and police sirens put you to sleep
High school was tough because no one spoke english
All the kids claim there better or more bada$$ than the north side kids
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