Miami's ghetto areas (pictures included) (Belle Glade, Palm Beach: live, vs, moving to)

[somebodymiami]

here are some pics i took in nassau,bahamas. have more but cant find my camera card

[Cougar Beach]

I saw neighborhoods in St. Lucia that were worse than anything I've seen in the U.S. There are neighborhoods on the outskirts of Mexico City and Rio that are beyond the pale.

If you want to see a hardscrabble neighborhood, check out the industrial area between downtown Miami and Wynwood (where artists are taking over the buildings) at night. You'll see a lot of people sleeping in the street.

I know an artist who has studio space at 2945 NW 1st Ave., so I'm sometimes there at night, where I witness the ravages of addiction and mental illness. We really are a throw-away society.

[woo99]

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.

[burgler09]

Originally Posted by woo99

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.

Not at all, go look at my posts :P

People here like to exaggerate.

[tallrick]

The fact is that low-class people live in areas with few or no trees and never maintain lawns. You can see this in coconut grove. Right near the FS Tucker elementary school is a barren ghetto but a few streets away is an affluent area easily located by the abundance of trees. Low class immigrants of all types quickly destroy all plant life upon purchasing a home and when they cluster together you get the ghetto look.

[Tungsten_Udder]

Originally Posted by tallrick

The fact is that low-class people live in areas with few or no trees and never maintain lawns. You can see this in coconut grove. Right near the FS Tucker elementary school is a barren ghetto but a few streets away is an affluent area easily located by the abundance of trees. Low class immigrants of all types quickly destroy all plant life upon purchasing a home and when they cluster together you get the ghetto look.

I like classism about as much as I like being poked in the eye with a needle.

[noland123]

Originally Posted by tallrick

The fact is that low-class people live in areas with few or no trees and never maintain lawns. You can see this in coconut grove. Right near the FS Tucker elementary school is a barren ghetto but a few streets away is an affluent area easily located by the abundance of trees. Low class immigrants of all types quickly destroy all plant life upon purchasing a home and when they cluster together you get the ghetto look.

I disagree with you here ,because if you go to the City of North Miami,there are bountiful and plentiful amount of trees and this area is not affluent by any means.and low-class immigrants of all types ,using the term all is a wide generalization,there are some who destroy plants and tree life but there are others who love nature.

[tallrick]

Hialeah used to be full of plant life, but look at it now. The same happened in Westchester and has been happening in westwood lakes. You can see it to some extent in overpriced areas like horse country and the redlands. I remember in the 80's when Cubans and other immigrants moved in my parent's area they cut down any tree other than a few select fruit trees, and palm trees. Many put the concrete statue out front, circular driveway, concrete lawn and iron bar fence with spikes and/or post top lights. I was told that they fear robbers hiding in the bushes and hate picking up leaves or cutting grass. As for the poor I agree that some poor areas have trees, just go through Hialeah and then Opa-Locka and see how the immigrants of Hialeah devastated most of the trees. Miami Springs is not like that because the city is strict and did not let the deforestation go without cashing in. Not all immigrants are low class and money does not cancel out a low-class attitude. Even in Liberty City there are a few well-kept homes and decent people can live anywhere. However, ghettoes are usually barren while high-class areas have grass trees and flowers.

[island atoll]

Originally Posted by tallrick

Hialeah used to be full of plant life, but look at it now. The same happened in Westchester and has been happening in westwood lakes. You can see it to some extent in overpriced areas like horse country and the redlands. I remember in the 80's when Cubans and other immigrants moved in my parent's area they cut down any tree other than a few select fruit trees, and palm trees. Many put the concrete statue out front, circular driveway, concrete lawn and iron bar fence with spikes and/or post top lights. I was told that they fear robbers hiding in the bushes and hate picking up leaves or cutting grass. As for the poor I agree that some poor areas have trees, just go through Hialeah and then Opa-Locka and see how the immigrants of Hialeah devastated most of the trees. Miami Springs is not like that because the city is strict and did not let the deforestation go without cashing in. Not all immigrants are low class and money does not cancel out a low-class attitude. Even in Liberty City there are a few well-kept homes and decent people can live anywhere. However, ghettoes are usually barren while high-class areas have grass trees and flowers.

Who needs trees when you make 5$ and hour and your household income is $20,000 a year? That cheap "quickie mart/neon sign look" of Hialeah was the result of Miami being sacrificed by the federal gov't to the immigrant cause. Miami was fed to the wolves without anyone to protect it from becoming overrun.

Low pay = low standards = who cares about trees?

[DCkid]

Originally Posted by island atoll

Who needs trees when you make 5$ and hour and your household income is $20,000 a year? That cheap "quickie mart/neon sign look" of Hialeah was the result of Miami being sacrificed by the federal gov't to the immigrant cause. Miami was fed to the wolves without anyone to protect it from becoming overrun.

Low pay = low standards = who cares about trees?