Bad areas in Toledo?

[BelieveInCleve]

Originally Posted by lasvegasfanforever

iam not a troll i lived in toledo all my life thank you very much how long have you lived here

Odd, seeing as you seem to know nothing about the city.

If you've lived in Toledo all of your life than you haven't lived anywhere else so you have nothing to compare it to.

[FleeTheRustBelt]

It's NOT all bad, but the proportion I would call bad is greater than 1/4. The local economy has hit a lot of once-prosperous parts of Toledo hard. Sylvania & Jackman area has slipped pretty badly in the past few years, to name one. Two new areas of decay have popped up by the old Southwyck and Northtowne malls. This in addition to the parts of Toledo that have been bad for a long time, the north end, downtown, the central Toledo ghetto between UT and downtown, the old south end out to Byrne Rd., and quite a bit of the east side. That's a pretty big chunk of the city when you add it all together.

[lastonestanding]

Originally Posted by FleeTheRustBelt

It's NOT all bad, but the proportion I would call bad is greater than 1/4. The local economy has hit a lot of once-prosperous parts of Toledo hard. Sylvania & Jackman area has slipped pretty badly in the past few years, to name one. Two new areas of decay have popped up by the old Southwyck and Northtowne malls. This in addition to the parts of Toledo that have been bad for a long time, the north end, downtown, the central Toledo ghetto between UT and downtown, the old south end out to Byrne Rd., and quite a bit of the east side. That's a pretty big chunk of the city when you add it all together.

I agree, its been on the constant decline around here lately, I have to say its definitely more than 1/4 of the city now than before. I remember in the beginning of this decade before I left town when I saw Toledo in the newspaper being compared to the other major cities in the state of Ohio and out of all the major cities in this state including Columbus, Toledo had the lowest unemployment rate of all major Ohio cities and the lowest crime rate. Everyone I knew was working somewhere. Times have changes since 2000 and 2001.