What City has the absolute best looking "ghetto"? (crime, compared)
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At the end of the day, you can't really grasp how "bad" a neighborhood might be by looking at a Google map streetview. A lot of neighborhoods that look very dirty and neglected in real life look much more livable through the sun-glared lens of a mid-morning Google map photograph.
For example, look at Lansdowne in Baltimore County, Maryland on the streetview. I am very familiar with this area and it does not look like this in the afternoon or evening. There are hardly any cars on the street because it is obvious that the majority of people in this neighborhood are working class folks with jobs. However, these jobs most people in this neighborhood have are not good jobs as the median household income in the town is only about 40K a year:
Doesn't look that bad from streetview right? This is completely inaccurate because the signs of neglect in this neighborhood are glaringly obvious if you see it with your naked eyes. Streeview doesn't capture the cutty corners of any ghetto neighborhood. Because of this, you won't see the overgrown grass and mounds of trash in the parking lots and alley ways. The fuzzy Google map photos also don't do a good job capturing the run-down look of these homes.
From looking at this streetview, you wouldn't be able to tell that you are nine times more likely to be murdered in this neighborhood than a town with a murder rate that matches the national average. You are also five times more likely to be robbed here than in a town with an average crime rate. The crime rate for every type of crime (except rape which is only slightly higher than the national average) is exponentially higher than the national average:
The Google map streetview mobile rolls through the hood at ten o'clock in the morning for a reason. However, this neighborhood is different than many neighborhoods in Baltimore city, proper, as hundreds of people do not loiter outside at all hours of the day and night here. Most violence in this neighborhood is between folks who know each other like anywhere else. But it would not be safe to walk through this neighborhood alone at night, or maybe even during the day, if you don't know anyone.
Bero Rd I remember that place. Used to skate Lansdowne Bowl when I was a kid, the entrance is right on Bero Rd. It was kinda real down there but not too crazy. A lot of kids from my high school were from there.
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Originally Posted by LunaticVillage
You've never been to Sunnydale so stop right there. Sunnydale does not look nice. Does this look nice to you?
Sunnydale is very real. I doubt anyone who's ever actually been there would say that it looks nice at all.
I met a guy who used to stay there. He wasn't from there originally but was staying there with friends. He said that if he was out somewhere in the city and it got late he wouldn't go home because it wasn't cool for him to walk through at night.
To put things in perspective, a man who was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon in Sunnydale 3 years ago was acquitted at trial because the jury believed that it was "necessary" for him to carry the gun do to a shooting in the area earlier in the day. Man acquitted of concealed weapon charge on 'necessity' defense | Bay City News | Crime | San Francisco Examiner Keep in mind that the gun he was carrying wasn't even his, that San Francisco is one of the most anti-gun cities in America, and that California does not issue concealed carry permits.
They kinda look like Florida ghettos. But the more dangerous areas of Miami look the part more than Compton, Inglewood or Long Beach do.
That's because West Compton, Inglewood and Long Beach have some of the nicest housing stock in South LA. Watts definitely looks the part... the main streets running through South LA (South Broadway, West Slauson, etc.) do too.
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Sunnydale does not look nice. Does this look nice to you? 
