Covington/Newport/Dayton

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Originally Posted by palmtrees_are_kool

I dont know if you ever look but also if you look at the sex offender map, the west side is loaded with them....

Its where the city sends most the people they baby sit when they have to move em for whatever reason. Their working on getting as many houses as they can get down on 13th to build more section 8. Theres no doubt in my mind that the other half of the projects will be torn down so they can bring more buisness to the precious river front while making our living worse. Hearing one of the peluosos on the news yesterday saying how much he loves to help people gave me a good laugh. He'll never move these people to the top of the hill where he,his family, and friends live. I don't see anything changing considering we basically have a monarchy.

anger aside.....The top of the hill and towards the levvy are your nicer spots.

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Originally Posted by stx12499

I agree with JCM...dayton is a nice area. I don't think there is hardly anything ghetto about almost anywhere in NKY. It is a pretty nice suburban area in general, and the older parts of Covington around Main Strasse, and Newport by the Levee are at least somewhat walkable and very historic and affordable.

Parts of nky are as down as spots in any big city. Boarded up houses block to block is ghetto in my opinion. It could be a little worse I guess. I mean theres indian reservations in the U.S that look like 3rd world countries.

The west side of town is the oldest. Calling the east end the historic district is just to help market the riverfront. If you buy certain homes in the district your obligated to make repairs using the original materials used making the repair cost 4 times as much as it should cost a normal person. My house was built in 1911 but were not obligated to do that because were not by the levy.

The oldest part would have been along the river front but that turned in to the slums and got torn down. Thats why the first 3-4 blocks used to look like something was missing for so long.

I'm not trying to bust your balls. I woke up feelin anal today. Is that how the words spelled? Thats how it sounds..

[palmtrees_are_kool]

Originally Posted by backwards nose

Parts of nky are as down as spots in any big city. Boarded up houses block to block is ghetto in my opinion. It could be a little worse I guess. I mean theres indian reservations in the U.S that look like 3rd world countries.

The west side of town is the oldest. Calling the east end the historic district is just to help market the riverfront. If you buy certain homes in the district your obligated to make repairs using the original materials used making the repair cost 4 times as much as it should cost a normal person. My house was built in 1911 but were not obligated to do that because were not by the levy.

The oldest part would have been along the river front but that turned in to the slums and got torn down. Thats why the first 3-4 blocks used to look like something was missing for so long.

I'm not trying to bust your balls. I woke up feelin anal today. Is that how the words spelled? Thats how it sounds..

Nice info, I didn't know that

[stx12499]

Originally Posted by backwards nose

Parts of nky are as down as spots in any big city. Boarded up houses block to block is ghetto in my opinion. It could be a little worse I guess. I mean theres indian reservations in the U.S that look like 3rd world countries.

The west side of town is the oldest. Calling the east end the historic district is just to help market the riverfront. If you buy certain homes in the district your obligated to make repairs using the original materials used making the repair cost 4 times as much as it should cost a normal person. My house was built in 1911 but were not obligated to do that because were not by the levy.

The oldest part would have been along the river front but that turned in to the slums and got torn down. Thats why the first 3-4 blocks used to look like something was missing for so long.

I'm not trying to bust your balls. I woke up feelin anal today. Is that how the words spelled? Thats how it sounds..

Yes, I have toured nearly every part of the original old, school cities of Covington, Newport, Dayton, etc. there is not a single part I would classify as a big cityesque ghetto like an Over the Rhine.

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Definition of ghetto

- a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

east Covington ring a bell?

Then you got the 2nd definition

-A ghetto is described as a "portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure

Projects and run down apartment complexes. NKYs got that. Big city or little isn’t really the issue. It doesn’t matter if 3 people or 12 people are robbing me. I am still getting robbed

OTR's looking like it might be making a turn around for the better now days.

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Originally Posted by stx12499

It is old and grtitty, but FAR from ghetto. Have you ever lived in a large city and seen the ghetto?

If you think New Orleans is still a larg city then yes. My brother lives in Hammond, LA (about 30 min away). Thank god I have never had to live there.