Is Erie Ghetto? (Philadelphia, Allentown, Wilson: middle school, college, income)

[mrb69]

Originally Posted by danwxman

Just to let people know....abandoned houses do not make a city dangerous.

Yes it does and it also makes the area look worse.

[mrb69]

Originally Posted by pj3000

Actually, yes, that does really look like Erie:
http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/d...e/DSC05545.jpg

http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/d...e/DSC05546.jpg

http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/d...e/DSC05568.jpg
two murders outside this club within the past 6 months

http://i531.photobucket.com/albums/d...e/DSC05597.jpg

These photos are from a photo thread by Evergrey, and represent some of the condition of many of the city's neighborhoods. However, they defintiely do not represent Erie's worst areas.

Though I agree with the others that abandoned houses do not automatically equal ghetto. No one has ever tried tried to compare Erie with Philadelphia or other larger cities as far as the extent of "ghetto" neighborhoods go. Erie, as I've said numerous times in this very thread, overall is a relatively safe city, but does have areas that many would consider "ghetto".

But, mrb69, since the photos you posted are your idea of "ghetto" (as you specifically stated, "Here's a picture of a ghetto"), then I guess you just totally destroyed your entire argument. Good job.

One abandoned house is nothing compared to rows of houses abandoned just on one street in my city.

Wow you showed 3 pictures and a bar!!!!

[pj3000]

Originally Posted by mrb69

One abandoned house is nothing compared to rows of houses abandoned just on one street in my city.

Wow you showed 3 pictures and a bar!!!!

Please. You've completely lost the argument with this one. You killed yourself! You post photos which you claim represent a true ghetto, and then I post pictures which show the exact same thing Erie (even with such similar architectural styles that they could easily fit in either city!). The photos are of singular houses, yes, but you have no idea what the block is like. In fact, in most any city, when you have an abandoned house on a street, there are almost always others right next door, across the street, etc... I know that to be absolutely true in Erie.

This was never a city vs city argument. If your city is more "ghetto", good, congratulations. I'd rather not have that title.

Face it, you killed yourself. Too bad. Argument over. Enough with this stupid topic. You can write all the "haha"s and "wow"s and whatever else you want... but you completely killed your entire argument.

[mrb69]

Originally Posted by pj3000

Please. You've completely lost the argument with this one. You killed yourself! You post photos which you claim represent a true ghetto, and then I post pictures which show the exact same thing Erie (even with such similar architectural styles that they could easily fit in either city!). The photos are of singular houses, yes, but you have no idea what the block is like. In fact, in most any city, when you have an abandoned house on a street, there are almost always others right next door, across the street, etc... I know that to be absolutely true in Erie.

This was never a city vs city argument. If your city is more "ghetto", good, congratulations. I'd rather not have that title.

Face it, you killed yourself. Too bad. Argument over. Enough with this stupid topic. You can write all the "haha"s and "wow"s and whatever else you want... but you completely killed your entire argument.

Wow you won!

I've walked down every single street you have mention that is so called bad and no way is close to being bad as buffalo and philly.

Dude all i'm going to say is a lower-middle class area isn't a poor area.

Theres no ghetto in Erie.

Theres no bad areas on the west side.

Two murders at a club is nothing.

When a city with over a 100k pop. only has 1 murder almost each year that doesn't make it crime filled.

Does Erie have the same mobs and gangs as Buffalo and Philly? NO!!!!

The only thing diffent between Erie and Philly is that Philly has a ghetto and crime.

I win!

No matter what you or I say THERES NO BAD AREA IN ERIE.

[danwxman]

Originally Posted by mrb69

Yes it does and it also makes the area look worse.

Not at all. There are areas with abandoned houses in the suburbs and in rural areas. Would you say those are dangerous? No. There are whole neighborhoods that have been abandoned in Detroit that one would hardly call dangerous...there's just no one living there.

[SteelCityRising]

Scranton's population of 72,500 is half of its heyday population of 145,000. Does the fact that it is "half-abandoned" make it a dangerous place in which to reside? Considering it's one of the state's safest large cities I should think not.

[mrb69]

Originally Posted by danwxman

Not at all. There are areas with abandoned houses in the suburbs and in rural areas. Would you say those are dangerous? No. There are whole neighborhoods that have been abandoned in Detroit that one would hardly call dangerous...there's just no one living there.

Yea but in the ghetto an abandoned house is a great spot for crime.

[MarinoG711]

Originally Posted by mrb69

Yea but in the ghetto an abandoned house is a great spot for crime.

What... Great spot for crime... Yeah OK...

[MarinoG711]

I think these might people the same people on here that I argued with before... I was in another thread where they said shoes hanging on telephone wires meant that you were in a bad area/ghetto... ha ha...

[Ohiogirl81]

I was in another thread where they said shoes hanging on telephone wires meant that you were in a bad area/ghetto

Or you're in a neighborhood populated by college students.