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Old 04-23-2008, 07:49 PM
 
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Originally Posted by jfre81 View Post
As for the city - at least this one - things can be deceiving. Not all of what's bad on the southwest side even looks "bad." I was driving around Gulfton and Bissonnet awhile back wondering where the hell the "ghetto" was. It didn't remind me of River Oaks, but doesn't look like Detroit or late-80s South Central or some other prototype of the popular image of a "bad/dangerous neighborhood." Even some of the Section 8 apartments you read about on the police blotter can look nice from the street, with landscaping and whatnot. At worst things looked like some street in Texas City I used to roam around when I was a kid, getting no more harm than what was coming to me. That sounds "bad" to a lot of people, but they probably didn't grow up in a place like that.
That's precisely the thesis of the Houston Fire Department District 68 essay
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