U really call Compton a ghetto? (Inglewood: credit, home, living in)

[majoun]

Originally Posted by [JS]

I find this kinda funny. People think Compton's so ghetto because of gangster rap. Compton's pretty much the poorest excuse for third world inner city I've ever seen. Most of Metro Detroit is much worse. Look at places outside of the city, places like Inkster, like River Rouge; and even worse, in Detroit, Hamtramck, Highland Park. People from Compton would be dead scared to go through places like that. I'm talking places that actually have commas in the crime ratings on this website. Places losing 15-20% of their populations every year because of the horrible conditions.

Compton, no doubt, is probably one of the worst places in L.A. - but it doesn't compare to the rest of the American ghettos.

Aren't Hamtramck and River Rouge overwhelmingly white? I know they are ghetto, though.

[Fencewalk]

There are streets in Compton and Watts where no matter what you answer to "what set you from?" you could end up dead.

[JEROME69SA]

Is ther sum1 frm eurpoe in dis thread?nd hw wud u knw huz set foot wer?

[nighthouse66]

Originally Posted by whereinutep

Who cares about Sweden, the post is about Compton....and yes Compton is ghetto and dangerous-PERIOD! So is Boyle Heights, Lincoln Heights and so on.

bullcrap. i live in lincoln heights. i have never heard gunshots here. never even gotten too many "ghetto birds" either. (helicopters). but i lived in sunny venice beach for two years and we had spotlights on our building from the choppers at least every week. there was a gang house down the street and i heard some very scary screams coming out of there one night. and venice beach has the creepiest homeless i have ever seen. mix old hippie with schizo with hardened homeless and you have some very weird people walking the streets. but venice beach boardwalk is the SECOND most visited tourist attraction in LA.

[Northsider 248]

Originally Posted by jordandubreil

the funny thing about your link is that if you go down a couple of blocks south to Grixdale Ave W the streets looks very nice and clean , the homes look in very neat condition and it looks upper class lol

That's hilarious. Those homes are all barred up and full of hoodlums. I doubt you'd find an occupied house without steel burglar doors in that neighborhood. The closest thing to upper class you'll get around there (considering there's nowhere upper class in that area to begin with) is the Courts in Hazel Park which is only really in those two blocks - Goulson to Pearl, Russel to Merill

But yes, let's voyage into the Detroit ghettos - State Fair - a constant reminder that 8 Mile can seperate a middle class city from a torched failure of a neighborhood, Brightmoor - which they call Blightmoor on a regular basis, River Rouge - a horribly ghetto suburb...

Now let's look at Los Angeles' ghettos.

Compton
Inglewood
Willowbrook

By Los Angeles standards, ghettos, but when you compare them to even some of the least destitute places in Detroit, there's certainly no contest.

Originally Posted by majoun

Aren't Hamtramck and River Rouge overwhelmingly white? I know they are ghetto, though.

Hamtramck's mostly white, River Rouge is becoming less white. It's not surprising at all. Pretty much every city is facing an increase of black population - Hazel Park, Harper Woods, Ferndale, Royal Oak, Warren... and, of course, while the black population of Detroit decreases.

Making it better for alot of people who can leave for the nicer parts of town, but much worse for the people who can't afford to leave or refuse to leave.

[Gentoo]

Originally Posted by Lifeshadower

The real question is 'why do people have such fascination with the ghetto?' I'm actually pretty grossed out by the near-glorification of 'thug life' by those who don't have to live through it day-by-day, as if life was really like a rap video or some version of 'Boys in the Hood'. Does driving through the ghetto really make you that much harder? Try coming in the middle of the night wearing red in most gang infested parts of the LA area. By the end of the first hour, you'll **** your dockers.

Anyways, American ghettos aren't nearly as bad as Americans like to think it is. Like everything else in America, its hyperbolized. There's are real slums 150 miles south of here in Tijuana. More Southern Californians should take a trip there, and see what it looks like in person.

Never do this!!! Lifeshadower is right take his/her word for it seriously!

[Gentoo]

I currently live in National City, San Diego's version of Compton and has led the county's crime rate for years. It looks decent, but there are the typical symptoms of poverty. There is graffiti everywhere (even on some palm trees lol) and there is an escalating feud between the mexican and filipino gangs.

People really have no idea what happens here in San Diego do they? I've lived in National City and Valencia Park. I used to have to travel through Logan Heights, Shelltown, Lincoln Park and Mountain View. Again, with a couple of exceptions, looks can be very deceiving, especially in San Diego. Like others have said, it's not the looks that make it bad. It's the activity.

[matt_sfl]

On Google maps, even the the bad neighborhoods in LA look maintained. Are these gangbangers like, "you up for that 187 later?"
"sure, but I need to edge my sidewalk first and put down some mulch, then we'll do that driveby"

[sidrah]

Originally Posted by JEROME69SA

Is ther sum1 frm eurpoe in dis thread?nd hw wud u knw huz set foot wer?

Really??

[BacktoBlue]

Originally Posted by ZenMaster2008

Palm trees really help make an area feel less Ghetto

LOL this is true. It's hard to call any place with palm trees ghetto