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East St. Louis, if only for the fact that it's close to home. But looking at those pictures send shivers down my spine. Camden at least looks like it could eventually return; East St. Louis is nearly all gone. It's a wasteland. And one filled with bloodthirsty people (and feral animals) at that. It would make a great horror movie setting, if anyone had the brass balls to film there.
E. St. Louis topped out at 82,000 people in 1950 when the city of St. Louis immediately across the river had 857,000. Now E. St. Louis is hovering around 27,000 and falling. St. Louis is around 318,000
I never said that there wasn't. I just noticed that it appeared every single shot of E. St. Louis was of an abandoned house surrounded by empty lots, whereas Camden was at least having some parts of it that are intact being shown.
Anyway, I'd pick E. St. Louis due to the fact that I'm familiar with the surrounding suburbs. I'd find an intact street on the border with a suburb like Belleville or Fairview Heights and spend all my time in the other suburb.
Obviously that probably defeats the purpose of this thread, but that's honestly probably why some of the farther off parts of E. St. Louis are probably still semi-intact; their proximity to suburbs that don't share a fraction of their problems.
The last 2 pictures are sort of (but only sort of) scary. The first couple ones aren't, they're only sketchy. It looks like they're just dormant and ready to be rehabbed. Those buildings just need some TLC. That kind of display doesn't even compare to Detroit-level decay, much less Camden and EStL-level decay.
The bad areas of Camden look worse than East St. Louis. But it's obviously still a city, you could see people walking on the street, people out on the porch. East St. Louis is houses scattered among fields. Fields don't look that scary. There's probably no one out there at 1:30 am, or most hours. But on the small chance you do meet someone… there'll be no one to hear you scream.
ESL looks like a haven for meth labs.
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