what's the ghetto-est area in your state?

[Taughnter]

I've never thought of Paterson as being particularly bad. I wouldn't even put it in my NJ Top 5.

Camden > Newark > Atlantic City > Trenton > Jersey City*



(*except the waterfront)

Problem with say, Jersey City or Newark is that they both have some pretty nice areas as well as the bad areas. Paterson is definitely NOT a nice place to live and you're not going to find anything like Grove St./Exchange place in Jersey City or even anything like the Ironbound or downtown Newark. I think Newark is way underrated and I don't think Jersey City necessarily belongs on there. Maybe certain parts of JC or Newark (or the surrounding towns), but for me the big questions are whether anything nice exists in those places, whether people will pay money for Real Estate, companies set up shop, etc. You've got plenty of nice things going up in Jersey City and Newark, but Paterson is just a dump.

FWIW, I have lived in Newark and Jersey City, but never in Paterson although I've been there plenty of times.

 

[LikeLinus]

Well I live in TN - so I'd say all of Memphis? :O

 

[vi edit]

In Indiana it's the closer you get to Chicago.

Indy has a ghetto and Gary was it's name-o!

 

[Avalon]

Titusville/Bithlo/Mims.

 

[Hacp]

Why are you all naming places were black or Hispanic people live? You racist bastards.

 

[Scotteq]

Why are you all naming places were black or Hispanic people live? You racist bastards.

The last I checked, Black and Hispanic people live pretty much everywhere.

404 - Racism Not Found

 

[Harrod]

Pine Bluff Arkansas, from city data This city is safer than 2% of the cities in the US.

http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ar/pine-bluff/crime/

 

[DirkGently1]

In the UK Millionaires live in gated estates...and everything else is ghetto :/

 

[GeekDrew]

Cleveland.

 

[bignateyk]

Philly

 

[ss284]

Baltimore, then PG county.

 

[dfuze]

Probably have to say Bridgeport CT

 

[BudAshes]

oakland. I think only baltimore/detroit beats that.

 

[nanette1985]

Problem with say, Jersey City or Newark is that they both have some pretty nice areas as well as the bad areas. Paterson is definitely NOT a nice place to live and you're not going to find anything like Grove St./Exchange place in Jersey City or even anything like the Ironbound or downtown Newark. I think Newark is way underrated and I don't think Jersey City necessarily belongs on there. Maybe certain parts of JC or Newark (or the surrounding towns), but for me the big questions are whether anything nice exists in those places, whether people will pay money for Real Estate, companies set up shop, etc. You've got plenty of nice things going up in Jersey City and Newark, but Paterson is just a dump.

FWIW, I have lived in Newark and Jersey City, but never in Paterson although I've been there plenty of times.

Paterson's not bad - I shop there, great stores, reasonable prices, interesting people. There are some really decent sections of Paterson too.

My first thought was Irvington. But I won't argue about Camden.

 

[TraumaRN]

Probably Detroit is the obvious choice for Michigan however Flint is pretty bad as well, however neither hold a candle to Saginaw which has consistently been rated the number one most violent city in America for almost 8 years now.

 

[crownjules]

Massachusetts - Dorchester is well known to even people from outside of the state. Chelsea is lesser known but just as run down and dangerous. Then you have Lowell, parts of Worcester, and parts of Springfield.

 

[Taughnter]

Paterson's not bad - I shop there, great stores, reasonable prices, interesting people. There are some really decent sections of Paterson too.

My first thought was Irvington. But I won't argue about Camden.

Actually now that you mention it, I've been to some stores in Paterson and that part of the city is really not bad at all...I just think of it as a different place. A lot of stores go up in these cities because of the Urban Enterprise Zone subsidies and sales tax breaks...but how are we really going to measure which one is worse? We've got a handful (or more) of really not so great cities.

Irvington and most of the cities around Newark are pretty bad. A few years ago someone at the Prosecutor's office told me that this had a lot to do with Newark's reduced crime. Basically, as Newark spent more money and hired more cops, the bad neighborhoods essentially got pushed over the border into the smaller neighboring towns. Kind of makes you wonder what will happen with all of the recent cuts in Newark.

 

[Jeffg010]

I would say north Philly.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

In Texas I'd have to say the most ghetto area of all is around Fair Park in south/east dallas.
When you have a Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Malcolm X Blvd as a cross street you can be sure you are in a bad neighborhood. I know cops that won't go down there at night.

Oak Cliff is the typical term for the ghetto around here. Irving is turning into one as well.

To satiate the people looking for racism, the white ghetto is called Balch Springs

 

[destrekor]

Cleveland.

It's either parts of Cleveland or parts of Cinci that is the worst in our state.

Not really sure yet, haven't had the pleasure of being in their inner city areas for long.

Inner-city Cbus never bothered me any more than the worst parts of Toledo. Then again, that's nothing light... as some parts of Toledo are all sorts of fucked up and I'd prefer to stay away.. but I don't fear.

 

[TechBoyJK]

I grew up in Belleville, which is attached at the hip to East St. Louis.. Belleville has the longest 'main street' in the world, and it literally looks like it's running away from east. st. louis.

 

[Ricemarine]

Seattle (Capitol Hill), WA?
Tacoma, WA?

 

[manimal]

Indy has a ghetto and Gary was it's name-o!

lol

I personally think hillbillyville or sheridan as its known north of Indy is the armpit of america

 

[brainhulk]

little mexico and africatown

 

[IGBT]

south/central LA. But I hear the Koreans are taking over. They patrol their roofs armed with trench brooms.