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Wow man I was thinking the same thing one day! I from the Mississippi Delta, a town called Greenville pop. about 40,000, it's on the River too! Greenville has the highest homicide rate in the state of Mississippi, but Jackson has the most homicides in the state! But Mississippi as a whole has a VERY HIGH homicide rate! HIGH IN POVERTY, it's the poorest state man! But it's still a lot of good people there! It's still things for people to there! Man the Delta have really humbled me!
I remember taking a train from chicago to new orleans. I struck up a conversation with a guy heading down from milwaukee to greenville to live with his ma. He had 3 kids back up in wisconsin who he could not pay for so he was selling crack and finally decided to get out and start over. For some reason I remembered him and from your post. wonder how he made out.
I remember taking a train from chicago to new orleans. I struck up a conversation with a guy heading down from milwaukee to greenville to live with his ma. He had 3 kids back up in wisconsin who he could not pay for so he was selling crack and finally decided to get out and start over. For some reason I remembered him and from your post. wonder how he made out.
I feel a lot safer in some parts of NYC than in Hamilton Hill. I saw one guy get shot at a park there and was approached by a group of drug dealers who thought I was looking at them the wrong way. I rarely see cops go there even though the drugs and crime are so visible.
Actually, there are a few stable parts of Camden like Fairview, Stockton, and Cooper Lanning (that's in the downtown area).
They don't look perfect (but hey, at least there are no abandoned homes), but the point is that not all areas of the city look like this.
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In NYC, there's a requirement for a certain percentage of housing project residents to be middle income...
They have a "working families preference", but most of the residents are low-income. I mean, for a middle-income person, there wouldn't be much money saved living in the projects. For instance, a family of 5 can get in there if they make up to $68,000, but they take out 30% of your salary for rent, which means you'd be paying about $1,700 a month. For that amount, you could easily get something decent in a market-rate apartment.
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Oakland, and whatever city surrounds Yale - that was pretty ghetto.
The most crime-ridden place I've had the opportunity to visit would have to be Tegucigalpa. From my stay there, it was easy to conclude that the city wasn't just the capital Honduras but of cocaine trafficking. People's involvement with the illicit drug trade was so nonchalant and salient that it was easy to suppose that it was all legal. Though the incessant tune of gunshots and police sirens in the near background of practically everywhere one went served as a very poignant reminder of how serious it all was and how murder was carried out as common and as insouciant as those multi-kilogram drug exchanges were.
Tegucigalpa has a very disconcerting aura of "everything is OK and everyone is happy" mixed with a very strong sense that "I just might be murdered today". Only vacate there if you're interested in purchasing large quantities of nearly pure cocaine at cheap prices. And that isn't advice, but jest.
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