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Hmmm... Now wait a minute...
Let's try that theory...
How come it doesn't hold up for the anomaly of NYC?
And if people say North Philly is worse, and with Philly having been a huge industrial city wtih a river, how come it doesn't hold up there?
Then thinking on cities that aren't built due to its' river: Atlanta, Phoenix... Why are they cities that hold Southside as worse side?
LA has a river that flows right down through the worst of the hoods, BUT it wasn't generally a industrial RIVER city... Though it has a LOT of industry, it is more of a industrial SEA PORT city.
Is it because the Sea ports are the the south of LA in LA's case?
Anybody know about South Miami and South Saint Louis neighborhoods?
St. Louis fits what you're looking for. You mentioned East St. Louis over in IL, which is def. true but it is a rather small section of the Metro East (around 36,000ish I think out of 700,000). The North side of the city is the bad side, the South is more middle class, and the West is the wealthiest. Obviously generalizing a lot here though.
Also, there was a thread about this a little while back that probably has some good info, don't remember much of it though.
Most rivers flow south. If you have industrial wastes and other byproducts flowing, you wouldn't want to end up downstream (south) of that.
Ahh good point. While North Philly may be the poorest part of the city on the whole, the most polluted part of the city is most likely South and Southwest Philly. In most other cities most polluted probably translates to poorest as well.
Most rivers flow south. If you have industrial wastes and other byproducts flowing, you wouldn't want to end up downstream (south) of that.
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Originally Posted by 2e1m5a
Ahh good point. While North Philly may be the poorest part of the city on the whole, the most polluted part of the city is most likely South and Southwest Philly. In most other cities most polluted probably translates to poorest as well.
Also most weather patterns flow from the west to the east, therefore air pollution tends to follow typical wind movement and in industrial cities it would seem to be better (and therefore wealthier) to be generally west of factories and industrial areas so I bet this will prove to be true as far as more desirable areas in those types of cities.
Portland, OR's nicest neighborhoods are to the west and south. North is the worst.
Isn't Arlington Heights and Hillside considered NW Portland neighborhoods? My partner's uncle has an 11,000 s.f. turn of the century mansion up there and it's in a pretty nice neighborhood to say the least!
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