Have you ever noticed..that the SOUTH SIDE of every city is the "bad" side? (Dallas, schools)

[The Dissenter]

Originally Posted by ambermerci

Never fails..whatever board I read here, the "south side" of almost every city is the "bad" part of town, or the town people caution others on..
Is there a "south side" that is safe or isnt that bad? LOL

In Louisville, it's the West Side that is the bad part of town. The South Side isn't great but it is okay.

[ATLnSAV]

Originally Posted by ckzona

In Chicago both the south side and west side are very dangerous.

All that leaves is the northside, right? cause the eastside is a lake lol

[Joann62]

LOL @ ATLnSAV! Just talking about that and said we should ask how much for the unfurnished lake! Timing is key!

[ATLnSAV]

Originally Posted by Joann62

LOL @ ATLnSAV! Just talking about that and said we should ask how much for the unfurnished lake! Timing is key!

You gotta be quick!

[Chicagoland60426]

Yeah I notice it, but it doesn't work for every city over 100,000. Milwaukee and Minneapolis south sides are the better parts.

Both Chicago's west and southside have bad reputations, but the westside is the poorest because its way smaller than the southside.

Peoria, IL bad section(well the worst) of town is the southside.

I heard D.C. southeast side is the worst part of D.C.

South Central LA(now South LA) was infamous for all the Blood and Crip warfare in the 90s. Compton is a south suburb of LA and home of gangster rap. There are several movies based off of South LA/Compton street life. Colors, Menance 2 Society, and Boys in the Hood to name a few.

NYC doesn't have sides, only boroughs and neighborhoods. Even there, South Bronx in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s was very rough.

[LovinDecatur]

Originally Posted by ATLnSAV

Same is true for both SAVANNAH and JACKSONVILLE ... part of that is because both cities are bisected east-west by rivers and the growth naturally occurred SOUTH and EAST of the city centers, rather than north.

Tampa is another example of a city where the better neighborhoods are on the south side...that's where the water is, after all.

[Kid Cann]

North Minneapolis is where much of the crime is. However, South Minneapolis has had it's heyday. It's now not so bad. East side of St. Paul is pretty crusty.

Here's a "Shots Fired Map" from last week in Minneapolis. Notice how most is in the North (geographically it's NW, but the area is called 'North Minneapolis') and the shots are pretty much in the south part of the city.

http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/poli...ShotsFired.pdf

Here's St. Paul's for 2009. The blue dots represent homocides.
http://www.stpaul.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=13295

[Infamous92]

This is true for my old city (well...large section of an even larger city) Queens, Southern Queens has more crime than the Northern Queens despite being smaller and more suburban than it's Northern counterpart. The South includes 2 neighborhoods (Southside Jamaica & Far Rockaway) that are among NYC's worst. The North has the "infamous" Queensbridge (Projects) which isn't even bad to me, maybe in the 70's-90's it was rowdy.

There's good & bad in both parts but the Southern part has more bad, and I think twice as much murders.

For NYC:

The Bronx's worst side is the South Side (South Bronx)
Brooklyn's worst side is the North Side (Brownsville, East New York, Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, etc.)
Manhattan's worst side is the North Side (East Harlem, Harlem, Washington Heights, etc. not that bad imo)
Queens's worst side is the South Side (South Jamaica & Far Rockaway)
Staten Island's worst side is the North Side (Idk...The North Shore?)

So there's more bad Northsides than Southsides in NYC.

It's confusing for NYC as a whole since it's almost like a triangle. But the Southern half would probably be worse since it has more bad neighborhoods, I'll just stick with the term "pockets".

[the one]

really? some would argue the east is.

east LA
east st. louis
east oakland
east palo alto

at the end of the day i dont think there is much truth to this.

[crazy_bd]

....and Martin Luther King Blvd is always in the bad part of town.