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Philly definitely has the largest collection of top tier suffering in the US. North, West, Southwest. And even at the metropolitan level, its far and away the overall most dangerous. Trenton, Camden, Wilmington, Chester, are all in or near the top ten most dangerous and poorest cities in America year after year. Philly is represented in crime lists, the way NYC, SF, DC are represented in the wealth lists, some years it and/or it's burbs make up nearly half the list. The only city that I feel is similar is New Orleans in a way.
Not sure what the most dangerous one is on a nationwide level, but the most sketchy one I have been to was Over-The-Rhine in Cincinnati. Fortunately I was in the car but it was pretty scary anyway.
Ik I'll get a lot of crap for this, but people never agnowkedge that north side Minneapolis (near north, Jordan, etc) are bad too. Not the worst anymore, but at one point in 1996 Minneapolis was the most dangerous city in the us, and in 2006 it was in the top three. The nickname murderapolis came from all the drive by machine gun shootings in those years. Now it is still bad. Just not in the top ten, which is fine by me.
I did pretty good, not even being from the area. I was once in a rental car in East Saint Louis on a fairly deserted side street, and an elderly black man motioned to me. I rolled down my window and he advised me to leave. I've heard some horrible things about East Saint Louis, more so than the bad neighborhoods of NY and LA.
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