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Although . . . there are trees, bushes, grass in most of the photos on this thread. It's not landscaped like a botanical garden, I doubt many people are routinely out pulling weeds, and I'm not denying that there are quite a few of those unusual "concrete yards" in Miami, but it's not as if there's no foliage, either.
I'm moving to miami. With all these posting of run down, crime ridden neighborhoods, I hope i'm not making the wrong decision. Is miami really that bad? Damn I hope not.
Where you moving to?
Dont come to Lemon City, this place sux, if you do, contact me, I can get you a gun.
I just finished reading all the posts on this thread and I thought it was great. Bravo to ddrox for starting it and the pics.
When discussing poverty & crime, being realistic about the conditions helps find solutions. Hyperbole and blame does nothing.
How would I rank Miami's worst neighborhoods? 6-7. Nothing here compares to the huge swaths of poverty, humanity and destruction in the bigger cities of the US or the favelas in Brasil or the shantytowns in Mexico, etc.
As someone wrote, a starving child is a starving child, whether the neighborhood is a 7 or a 10.
I just finished reading all the posts on this thread and I thought it was great. Bravo to ddrox for starting it and the pics.
When discussing poverty & crime, being realistic about the conditions helps find solutions. Hyperbole and blame does nothing.
How would I rank Miami's worst neighborhoods? 6-7. Nothing here compares to the huge swaths of poverty, humanity and destruction in the bigger cities of the US or the favelas in Brasil or the shantytowns in Mexico, etc.
As someone wrote, a starving child is a starving child, whether the neighborhood is a 7 or a 10.
lol why does everyone ALWAYS do this?
how can you compare a us city with brazil. seriously.
how can you compare a us city with brazil. seriously.
The question asked was "how would you rank Miami's bad areas vs other's in the US" right?
Asked and answered.
To understand and not just point fingers it helps to have a basis.
I brought up Mexico and Brazil specifically b/c they are similar to the US in size, population and history. "Seriously." They are EVEN WORSE than the US in terms rich vs poor and lessons can be learned even if favelas aren't EXACTLY the same as Overtown.
JUST AS it is fair to compare things to Haiti b/c so many poor folks in Miami come from Haiti.
We don't live in a sealed vacuum here in the US. Many/most of the problems we have here are universal and if we open our eyes, maybe we can learn something.
Last edited by planetsurf; 12-11-2008 at 02:42 PM..
I think everyone here has the right to compare Miami to Brasil and other countries for the same reason everyone here can call Miami 3rd world. The bad of Miami often doesn't compare to the "not so bad" of even the better 3rd world countries.
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