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Originally Posted by ss20ts
Have you read the articles about Rocky Mount? I also said one of the worst, not the worst. I'd give that award to Detroit.
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While I'd disagree with Rocky Mount being "one of the worst" (in my travels throughout the country, I've seen bad and worse and, while Rocky Mount has gotten worse over the years, its far from "one of the worst" in my view), things have changed for the worst there over the years. The problem often is low income individuals (some of whom are involved in drugs/gangs) being pushed out of gentrifying areas of NYC, etc. (we've had a lot of that up here) and "going back down South." Not all of these people are bad, but some of them were the worst (in terms of gang activity and drug peddling) that certain now gentrifying cities had to offer. The funny thing is that, places like Rocky Mount (or any other smaller City/town for that matter) that were once romanticized as being safe, cheaper alternatives from certain larger areas are now the exact opposite (note, my mother was raised in Rocky Mount at a time where you didn't have to lock your doors, but those times are now gone). You see the same thing happening to parts of Long Island as certain troublemakers from NYC are getting pushed out to those areas, thus destroying the quality of life that was once there.
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