gerb131
Posts: 9,932
May 16, 2010 10:32am
I didn't think Atlanta was all too hot myself. Tons of trash and pan handlers.
BigAppleBuckeye
Posts: 2,935
May 16, 2010 11:15am
If you ever want to see Lebron play a home game again, you are going to have toScarlet_Buckeye wrote: It pains me to say this, but out of all the "major" cities, I think it has to be Detroit. If you include smaller cities, Youngstown can give it a run for its money. I'm sure there is some crap-hole city in New Jersey that can rival these two, but I would never set foot in New Jersey, therefore I could never find out.
Seriously though, you are usually a pretty good poster Scarlet, and this post resembles one from some of the less-educated folks on here. There is a reason why NJ residents make the most income (or Top 3, it always fluctuates) in the U.S. - some really gorgeous parts and affluent neighborhoods. I wouldn't base your opinion on the Sopranos and Jersey Shore.
sleeper
Posts: 27,879
May 16, 2010 12:51pm
New Jersey isn't bad, but Trenton sucks.
I'm going to go with Detroit, I've only been there once, and I'll never go again.
I'm going to go with Detroit, I've only been there once, and I'll never go again.
Automatik
Posts: 14,632
May 16, 2010 2:21pm
Tie between Gary, Indiana and Detroit
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Con_Alma
Posts: 12,198
May 16, 2010 2:37pm
Newark is no garden of eden.sleeper wrote: New Jersey isn't bad, but Trenton sucks.
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Red_Skin_Pride
Posts: 1,226
May 16, 2010 2:57pm
Ditto. We went to Detroit when I went to BG, and I still don't really know how we ever made it home. I've been to a lot of "big" cities in my life, including Chicago, Miami, and Dallas (going to LA next year) and I have to say that Detroit made me more nervous than I have ever been in my life after the sun went down...and it wasn't all that comfy of a feeling while it was still daylight.sleeper wrote: I'm going to go with Detroit, I've only been there once, and I'll never go again.
I also agree with the poster who mentioned east St. Louis. It's pretty rough.
And I would like to throw in Houston, Texas as a place that I haven't seen mentioned yet.
wes_mantooth
Posts: 17,977
May 16, 2010 3:31pm
Agreed about St Louis
Strapping Young Lad
Posts: 2,453
May 16, 2010 3:34pm
Al Capone wrote: Just wondered everyones thought which city is worse? Cleveland or Detroit? Both cities are crime-ridden, rat infested, eyesores that have no future. Both cities have god awful sports teams (at least Cleveland) with Detroit being on the upswing. I will go with Cleveland.
gerb131
Posts: 9,932
May 16, 2010 4:13pm
Where did you get 4 Cards' picture?
Tigerfan00
Posts: 3,427
May 16, 2010 4:24pm
Thats not Al Capones van?
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BR1986FB
Posts: 24,104
May 16, 2010 4:29pm
I know that Pittsburgh has cleaned it's act up but the ONE time I visited there in 1987, you could defecate in the street and it would have been referred to as "air freshener." I've heard it's cleaned up it's act but it was a bigger shithole than Detroit at that time. The bar we went to actually had a DIRT floor. I was expecting to be arrested by Roscoe P. Coltrane.
skank
Posts: 6,543
May 16, 2010 4:45pm
Now, one corner has Ben raping chicks, another had Santonio selling/buying drugs, yet another has a handful of toothless losers waving their urine soaked terrible towels, living in the '70s.BR1986FB wrote: I know that Pittsburgh has cleaned it's act up but the ONE time I visited there in 1987, you could defecate in the street and it would have been referred to as "air freshener." I've heard it's cleaned up it's act but it was a bigger shithole than Detroit at that time. The bar we went to actually had a DIRT floor. I was expecting to be arrested by Roscoe P. Coltrane.
Strapping Young Lad
Posts: 2,453
May 16, 2010 4:50pm
And that's just on Rockne's block. It gets worse.
Bigred1995
Posts: 1,042
May 16, 2010 5:07pm
Honestly, why do you continue to post this "statistic" without a source? You tried this in the "15 Worst College Crime Areas" thread a while back and you failed to provide a source then too!sonofsam wrote: L.A. and Detroit. Although Youngstown has the highest murder-per-capita rate in the U.S.
In that thread I actually provided two links that showed Youngstown was not the "highest murder-per-capita rate in the U.S.", but New Orleans, at the time was; did you just not read it? That source is here:
The other link I proved is here:...New Orleans has by far the nation's highest per-capita murder rate.
Using the highest of those population estimates, the city last year recorded 55 murders per 100,000 residents. The number used by the FBI notches that up to 64 murders per 100,000 people.
Source: http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/..._orle.html
"Here's a source for Youngstown: http://www.city-data.com/city/Youngstown-Ohio.html"
Do you not know how to source material or do you not understand what "per capita" actually mean (hint: it doesn't mean a lot)?
4cards
Posts: 2,551
May 16, 2010 5:26pm
gerb131 wrote: Where did you get 4 Cards' picture?
...dammm security cameras are everywhere
4cards
Posts: 2,551
May 16, 2010 5:30pm
...I've worked in a few towns & only been afraid a couple of times but I got to say the North side of Chicago is pretty nasty. A few of the streets I turned down and thought to myself ...please let me get back to Ohio.
Right up there also is;
1. Gary, In ( worked there for 6 months & it was NOOOOOOOO picnic)
2. East St. Louis
and...Zanesville, OH (rough gangs there led by gerb & bigmirg)
Right up there also is;
1. Gary, In ( worked there for 6 months & it was NOOOOOOOO picnic)
2. East St. Louis
and...Zanesville, OH (rough gangs there led by gerb & bigmirg)
Writerbuckeye
Posts: 4,745
May 16, 2010 5:47pm
Let's see, Detroit is literally bulldozing whole neighborhoods of abandoned houses with a goal of shrinking its area to fit the city services actually needed, and basically start over.
I'd say there's your "winner".
I'd say there's your "winner".
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cbus4life
Posts: 2,849
May 16, 2010 5:51pm
Such a shame that Detroit is in the shape it is in.
A beautiful, important city, wonderful architecture, history, etc., now reduced to a shell of what it once was.
I still enjoy visiting, though.
A beautiful, important city, wonderful architecture, history, etc., now reduced to a shell of what it once was.
I still enjoy visiting, though.
Classyposter58
Posts: 6,321
May 16, 2010 6:00pm
Haha it's Detroit. If I didn't love the Red Wings and Tigers so much I'd never ever go there. Ha it really is a terrible city but the northern burbs aren't bad
Scarlet_Buckeye
Posts: 5,264
May 16, 2010 8:09pm
Thanks for the kind words BigApple. I guess I am basing my opinion largely off of my experience last summer spend in Manhattan, where no one had a kind word to say about NJ. Like I said, I've never been, but I've heard it is extremely polluted and that there is a reason why the city of NY sends all its trash to NJ and they accept it.BigAppleBuckeye wrote:If you ever want to see Lebron play a home game again, you are going to have toScarlet_Buckeye wrote: It pains me to say this, but out of all the "major" cities, I think it has to be Detroit. If you include smaller cities, Youngstown can give it a run for its money. I'm sure there is some crap-hole city in New Jersey that can rival these two, but I would never set foot in New Jersey, therefore I could never find out.
Seriously though, you are usually a pretty good poster Scarlet, and this post resembles one from some of the less-educated folks on here. There is a reason why NJ residents make the most income (or Top 3, it always fluctuates) in the U.S. - some really gorgeous parts and affluent neighborhoods. I wouldn't base your opinion on the Sopranos and Jersey Shore.
Just saying. I could be wrong. You're closer to the situation so you probably know a lot more than I do.
rookie_j70
Posts: 677
May 16, 2010 9:08pm
cleveland
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Gardens35
Posts: 4,929
May 16, 2010 9:42pm
No it doesn't. :rolleyes:sonofsam wrote: L.A. and Detroit. Although Youngstown has the highest murder-per-capita rate in the U.S.
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
May 16, 2010 9:43pm
Youngstown isn't even in the discussion. It's nowhere near as shitty as it used to be.
Detroit on the other hand...
Detroit on the other hand...
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bwcomet89
Posts: 633
May 17, 2010 1:02am
I've been to many of the afore mentioned cities and my vote goes to Gary, IN. There are a few good spots in Detroit, I've never really had a problem in Cleveland, but Gary is a staight up dump. I passed through there before, and stopped to see the lake. After walking through several hundred feet of any garbage between car tires to broken beer bottles I had to get out. Gary is like a different color. If you consider crime rates, I'm sure Gary is not as bad, but as a city, its nasty.
dwccrew
Posts: 7,817
May 17, 2010 1:10am
Washington D.C. A lot of crime and most of that crime is committed on Capitol Hill and in the White House.