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I have stayed in San Ysidro before because of the much lower motel rates, they go as low as $45 a night in the area.
San Ysidro where the large outlet mall surprised me because it has alot of apartment buildings in the area.
There are some decent parts of San Ysidro, but some of it quite run-down. Overall, it is not a rough neighborhood but isn't a polished neighborhood that's for sure.
It sort of felt like South Albuqerque, where I didn't feel unsafe and it wasn't dirty but was outdated and a tad bit sketchy and had a really southwestern look to it.
It is so odd staying in San Ysidro which is in a bowl and just a mile or two up the hill on in Tijuana is some of the most violent neighborhoods in North America.
I mean I didn't feel unsafe in San Ysidro at all, but it was just hard to believe that a couple of hundred yards away were some the roughest neighborhoods on the planet and yet it was relatively calm on the San Diego side.
I would not call neighborhoods in TJ the some of the "roughest" on the planet. The city is ranked 15th in Mexico for its murder rate and is lower than the cities of St Louis and Baltimore despite a recent uptick.
Long Island and Queens are not separated by a bridge, Queens is actually on the landmass of Long Island, but not the area of Long Island colloquially referred to as Long Island, if that makes sense.
I'm curious as to what neighborhood you're talking about anyway, I can't think of any border areas of Queens that are particularly bad. The one exception might be Far Rockaway, which is not too far from some affluent Long Island towns.
Far Rockaway is exactly what I'm talking about. I'm from Atlantic Beach, which is on a barrier island to the south of Long Island proper. To exit the village, you have to cross the Atlantic Beach Bridge, and at the north end of the bridge, you can either continue straight into Lawrence (also an affluent Nassau County town) or bear left into Far Rockaway. Bearing left was what I literally never did for 25 years until a few months ago.
Before we lived in Atlantic Beach, we lived in North Woodmere, which also borders Queens (specifically Rosedale) via a little bridge over Hook Creek. Rosedale is much less desirable than North Woodmere, certainly with a higher crime rate, but I didn't mention it because I don't think I'd go so far as to call it a "bad area."
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Newark NJ/ South Orange NJ border. Newark is anything but deprived of crime, drugs, and unmaintained homes. But once you cross the South Orange border, you see well-maintained, old mansions.
Many Latin American cities such as Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires have slums/shantytowns that are located right next to very wealthy neighborhoods like Pavao-Pavaozinho/Copacabana or Villa 31/Recoleta.
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