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Out of personal interest and curiosity, I'm looking for examples of where a fairly wealthy (or at least tourist centered) area is next to an impoverished, high crime area is in San Francisco where Union Square meets the Tenderloin. In this example, you have Tiffany, Nordstrom, etc. and lots of other tourist and other generally "yuppie" establishments literally within a few hundred feet of very high crime areas full of fleabag hotels and open air drug activity.
I have good and bad in quotes because these terms can be somewhat subjective (i.e. some low income areas can be surprisingly stable and a better sense of social cohesion than other areas that look better on paper). With that said, in general a good area is one with higher (or at least not impoverished or close to it) income, decent rates of education, good physical upkeep, and, probably most importantly, low crime. Bad areas would have the opposite traits (low income and education rates, poor upkeep, high crime, etc.).
What are some other examples of cities and towns in the U.S. where there there are such extremes that are close physically to each other? And the example you give doesn't have to be large well known cities. If there's a small town or rural area where you know this is case, I'd like to hear about that as well.
Delmar Blvd in St. Louis, between Hodiamont Ave and Vandeventer Ave. Upper and middle-class to the south. Almost total poverty to the north.
Delmar also serves as a major racial line in St. Louis, much like Troost in KC, or 8 mile in Detroit.
I actually don't think it is as pronounced as past decades, when the division extended all the way to Downtown, but there is still an immediate and drastic difference.
Hilarious to out of towners. You can be in River Oaks (richest residential neighborhood in Texas) and cross one street and you are in a black shanty-houses area that looks out of the 1930's. There are many reasons for this, but a lack of zoning throughout the city, which is intentional, makes for interesting neighbors.
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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My small city across from Louisville KY is like that. There are several places where census tracts with 35% college graduates border census tracts that don't have a single college graduate. I'm in a bridge section myself. Just a few blocks south of me is quite poor with tons of drug problems. Go a few blocks north and it's pretty affluent. Median household income in both areas goes from $16k to $75k, it's $39k in my neighborhood.
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