Does your metro have a good/bad part divide? (live, crime, places)
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I've noticed most metros have a "good" side where nearly all well off people in that metro live in and people strive to live . For example., Westside vs everything else in the case of Los Angeles same as in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, etc.
NYC is the only metro I can think of that does not have a "good"/not good divide. In NYC, "good" is scattered throughout in all directions.. Manhattan, Fairfield CT, Westchester, NJ, Hamptons/LI.
The same can be said for the Bay Area's 'bad areas' as well though
(except maybe north bay, that might just be pure money lol)
Well just look at Hy 101 from Santa Rosa all the way to Gilroy. For a corridor of 4 Million people, there are very few 'bad' areas for the entire length of that drive.
280 once you leave SF proper is upper middle class and then filthy rich all the way to San Jose.
In the East Bay, the entire 24 corridor from Oakland to Walnut Creek is rich, 680 from San Jose all the way up to Concord is affluent, 580 from Harrrison St in Oakland all the way to 205 in Tracy is upscale as well.
As far as 'bad' areas, obviously those areas exist too-but the OP didnt ask.
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I thought that, generally, the North Side of NYC was the "rough side of town"? Specifically Harlem, Bronx and Yonkers cover a pretty wide swath of land that contains relatively few "good" areas -- or is this false and misdirected by media???
In Memphis the North & South sides are bad, while Downtown (on the Westside), Midtown, and East Memphis are the good areas. They are all connected, it's basically a corridor of nice areas right through the middle of the city. The "nice area corridor" is really thin in some places (like Midtown), but it gets bigger at the ends (East Memphis & Downtown)
Well generally speaking, you can easily carve out a piece of Chicago and call it the more undesirable than the rest.
Go about two miles north of downtown, go directly west to I-294, and then everything within that I-294 to I-80 up to the east side of Gary, Indiana would be the undesirable areas.
The most desirable are the northern lakefront areas, far northwest surubs, and western suburbs. What's seen as a little more the middle class is the northwest suburbs, areas out west, the southwest, and then the areas south of I-80 and into Indiana (not Gary).
That's a very vague description. I KNOW that there are many areas that buck that trend, like some sketchy areas way out west and up north, and places like Hyde Park and Oak Park that are really nice. I assume we're just speaking in terms of general bad vs good. Otherwise it would be like that San Fran poster, where it was just a hodge podge of good and bad and nice and ok all sprinkled around. I mean you can draw some more vague good-bad swaths of the bay area.
Washington, D.C. is sharply divided: nice and very upscale in the northwest; worn-down and crime-ridden in the southeast
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