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My worst experience was Cabrini Green in Chicago. I did volunteer work INSIDE some of the buildings there and it was a shocking living environment and I felt like an animal in a caged zoo environment. Unbelievable that people live this way their entire life!
My worst experience was Cabrini Green in Chicago. I did volunteer work INSIDE some of the buildings there and it was a shocking living environment and I felt like an animal in a caged zoo environment. Unbelievable that people live this way their entire life!
I forgot about the southside of Chicago. I'm suprised that hasn't been mentioned yet. There was even a 70s TV show taking place that area.
I always thought that the ghettos in Los Angeles were really bad until I visited New York recently. I love NYC but saw depressed areas in the south Bronx and part of Brooklyn that made my jaw drop. Admittedly I stayed with cousins in the Tremont district of the Bronx and attended a wedding reception in Bedfort Stuyvesant so these neighborhoods certainly don't represent New York City in general but the degree of poverty was overwhelming to me.
The difference I noticed between slums in LA and NYC is that there are lots of trees and even yards with grass in the ghettos of Los Angeles so it doesn't seem so dire.
I always thought that the ghettos in Los Angeles were really bad until I visited New York recently. I love NYC but saw depressed areas in the south Bronx and part of Brooklyn that made my jaw drop. Admittedly I stayed with cousins in the Tremont district of the Bronx and attended a wedding reception in Bedfort Stuyvesant so these neighborhoods certainly don't represent New York City in general but the degree of poverty was overwhelming to me.
The difference I noticed between slums in LA and NYC is that there are lots of trees and even yards with grass in the ghettos of Los Angeles so it doesn't seem so dire.
Word. You see..people nowadays think NYC has no slummy areas. It's cleaned up, but the Bronx and other low income sections of the city still have man many run down and gritty areas. One of the reasons for this IMO is that there's so much people. As a result you're going to have trash everywhere, more graffiti, more loitering, and things just get worned down with so much foot traffic.
But there you have it from a california dude who jus came to NYC.
To be 100% honest, I've seen (and lived in) much, much, much worse. That's not even that bad.
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