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if you are puertorican/black you'll be fine in camden. i lived there for about 3 years. stayed in north and south camden (the worst areas). rent is sooo cheap that is why i was there. you can get a 3 bedroom home w/a mortgage of $400/month. lol. and with a short 20 minute commute to cherry hill, it is perfect. crime is crazy high. my car never got stolen or vandalized. you just have to blend in with the crowd. don't flash what you got, etc.
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That is not true! My family is Puerto Rican and went to Camden once (to visit the aquarium) and we stuck out like a sore thumb! Even more so because we were in my mother's Lincoln Navigator that day. GPS systems tend to send you down the worst streets, LOL.
Last edited by Busch Boy; 05-01-2008 at 04:59 PM..
Camden is something like 90% single woman parents. There are few normal city amenities like movies, supermarket, etc. An 8-lane highway to the Ben Franklin Bridge tolls splits the area in half. When I was a teenager driving to Philadelphia, I was frankly afraid to even drive through it.
During and right after the war, it was an industrial success. I remember as a kid, driving across the Walt Whitman Bridge to South Philly, holding your breath because of smells from Old Grandad Bourbon and Campbell Soup, among others. Poor people, mostly Puerto Rican, came to the area for the work.
When the work went away, everything crashed and burned.
The areas of Camden bordering east on non-Camden are OK, and have access to the high speed train to Philadelphia and east to the suburbs and suburban towns (Collingswood, Haddonfield, etc.) I think the hospital (Cooper?) is in that area.
But the rows of burned out failing rowhouses, the tons of young women with many kids, the lack of men (or anyone) heading to work... Camden might well have reached a tipping point of no return.
My father lives near the Camden line in the only trailer park in Cherry Hill. It's a very urban area of suburbia, with public transport, stores, etc. Quite livable, but Camden itself is a goner.
if you are puertorican/black you'll be fine in camden. i lived there for about 3 years. stayed in north and south camden (the worst areas). rent is sooo cheap that is why i was there. you can get a 3 bedroom home w/a mortgage of $400/month. lol. and with a short 20 minute commute to cherry hill, it is perfect. crime is crazy high. my car never got stolen or vandalized. you just have to blend in with the crowd. don't flash what you got, etc.
common street sense
That video was shot in North Philly. If you flash your goods around Camden all that money "saved" by living there will be taken away like candy from a baby.
if you are puertorican/black you'll be fine in camden. i lived there for about 3 years. stayed in north and south camden (the worst areas). rent is sooo cheap that is why i was there. you can get a 3 bedroom home w/a mortgage of $400/month. lol. and with a short 20 minute commute to cherry hill, it is perfect. crime is crazy high. my car never got stolen or vandalized. you just have to blend in with the crowd. don't flash what you got, etc.
common street sense
Damn, I didn't know that video was shot in Camden... I love Clipse.
I'm telling you, nothing in NJ beats Camden's griminess. And I always defend urban areas on City-Data. It makes the bad parts of Newark look like Basking Ridge!
You never know though. Maybe Philidelphia will be the next NYC and Camden will be the next Jersey City. Only time will tell.
Last edited by Busch Boy; 05-01-2008 at 11:53 PM..
I'm telling you, nothing in NJ beats Camden's griminess. And I always defend urban areas on City-Data. It makes the bad parts of Newark look like Basking Ridge!
You never know though. Maybe Philidelphia will be the next NYC and Camden will be the next Jersey City. Only time will tell.
Damn, I didn't know that video was shot in Camden... I love Clipse.
Not Camden. You can tell by the houses, the ones in Camden are usually two stories and there are more burned out blocks. The denser housing in this video and the architecture definitely resembles Philadelphia. Plus that green building they were in front of had a sign with a 215 phone number on it.
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