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Old 10-03-2013, 11:43 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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Yeah that is a good one, and probably pretty accurate. Still amazed that many don't travel out of their 'bubbles' often.
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Old 10-03-2013, 03:09 PM
 
Location: Where the sun always shines
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Merlin Santana & Yetunde Price still too fresh in my head. No thanks.
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Old 10-03-2013, 03:12 PM
 
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And Brooklyn aint that great nowadays. Don't believe the hype. Still a lot of poverty, and random violence in many parts of Brooklyn. Only the areas closer to Manhattan have gotten somewhat better, but a good amount of Brooklyn is still hood with a lot of Housing projects everywhere. Even in the "NICE" areas
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Old 10-03-2013, 03:26 PM
 
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What does Merlin Santana have to do with Compton?
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Old 10-03-2013, 04:24 PM
 
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It always amazes me how these traditional ghetto towns in LA always have these fantasies of becoming middle to upper class.

I've been to Compton. Compton and the South Bronx are twin cities separated at birth. One city went to the west coast and the other stayed in the east.

Both are equal in the poverty equation. It took Brooklyn 20 years to get to where it is now and it wasn't even THAT bad.

It would take Compton at least 40 years, same for East LA and Watts too.
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Old 10-03-2013, 04:27 PM
 
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And Brooklyn aint that great nowadays. Don't believe the hype. Still a lot of poverty, and random violence in many parts of Brooklyn. Only the areas closer to Manhattan have gotten somewhat better, but a good amount of Brooklyn is still hood with a lot of Housing projects everywhere. Even in the "NICE" areas
Please school these folks Jacktravern.

Bloomberg also said there wasn't any poverty in the city either, but yet 3 million out of 7 million people who live here are on foodstamps.
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Old 10-03-2013, 04:50 PM
 
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What does Merlin Santana have to do with Compton?
At the time, it was reported that he was killed in Compton. Now apparently that has been changed to South Central LA. My mistake, Compton is now safe all

The reality is this, in certain areas like- Compton, Inglewood, South Central, Long Beach- you have to ask someone who lives there before visiting "is your neighborhood blue or red?". As long as that question has to be asked, Compton has a long ways to go, and no well thinking middle or upper middle class person will be moving there buying property ect...
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Old 10-03-2013, 04:52 PM
 
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At the time, it was reported that he was killed in Compton. Now apparently that has been changed to South Central LA. My mistake, Compton is now safe all

The reality is this, in certain areas like- Compton, Inglewood, South Central, Long Beach- you have to ask someone who lives there before visiting "is your neighborhood blue or red?". As long as that question has to be asked, Compton has a long ways to go, and no well thinking middle or upper middle class person will be moving there buying property ect...
You are living in the 90's. There are plenty of middle class people in Compton, they just aren't white.
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Old 10-03-2013, 04:56 PM
 
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at the time, it was reported that he was killed in compton. Now apparently that has been changed to south central la. My mistake, compton is now safe all

The reality is this, in certain areas like- compton, inglewood, south central, long beach- you have to ask someone who lives there before visiting "is your neighborhood blue or red?". As long as that question has to be asked, compton has a long ways to go, and no well thinking middle or upper middle class person will be moving there buying property ect...
Too funny!
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Old 10-03-2013, 05:06 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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And Brooklyn aint that great nowadays. Don't believe the hype. Still a lot of poverty, and random violence in many parts of Brooklyn. Only the areas closer to Manhattan have gotten somewhat better, but a good amount of Brooklyn is still hood with a lot of Housing projects everywhere. Even in the "NICE" areas
Yeah makes senses. The solution would be get rid of the housing projects. Imagine what downtown would look like without the SROs. There is demand for more housing/building but those SROs can't even be sold and redeveloped from what I've heard. Non profits own many of them.

That's too tough a pill to swallow of course . Also the people making the laws on these types of things usually don't have to live in areas with a lot of SROs, housing projects, homeless shelters, and the accompanying 'issues' that result from having those institutions in a neighborhood.
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