One song to describe your city

**Janszoon** · 07-19-2015, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Exo

It's really not that bad anymore. Harlem and Washington Heights have had a bad rap since the 80s when half of Manhattan was a crack house. You still shouldn't walk around too late at night but that can be said about most neighborhoods in all five boroughs. The trouble areas now are Bed-Sty/Bushwick in Brooklyn and the entirety of The Bronx. Those are the areas that should take Harlem's bad rap.

Fun fact. You're more likely to get mugged in Times Square than Harlem nowadays.

I don't know the Bronx well enough to name neighborhoods, but I've definitely been to parts that weren't bad at all.

**Exo** · 07-19-2015, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

I don't know the Bronx well enough to name neighborhoods, but I've definitely been to parts that weren't bad at all.

Riverdale is the only place I'd feel comfortable walking around at night. It's just one man's opinion but I take walks across the bridge to Washington Heights all the time at night and never feel like I'm in any danger. I step into The Bronx and the hairs stand up on my neck like some arctic wolf. Bad vibes every time. It's subjective though.

downwardspiral · 07-19-2015, 09:44 AM

I find that people are very quick to jump to conclusions when it comes to talking about less desirable suburbs. And a lot of the time they've either never visited or have visited but not in a very long time. Places are hardly ever as bad as people say.

DwnWthVwls · 07-19-2015, 09:47 AM

I'll take your word for it your there a lot more often than I am. I mostly went to Queens and Manhattan for work, idk anything about the Bronx.

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Originally Posted by downwardspiral

I find that people are very quick to jump to conclusions when it comes to talking about less desirable suburbs. And a lot of the time they've either never visited or have visited but not in a very long time. Places are hardly ever as bad as people say.

Uhh.. maybe not where you live, but NJ has some seriously dangerous areas. If you don't know where you're going or who you're going to see (especially if your white) you are getting robbed, beat up, or maybe killed.

Black Francis · 07-19-2015, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by downwardspiral

I find that people are very quick to jump to conclusions when it comes to talking about less desirable suburbs. And a lot of the time they've either never visited or have visited but not in a very long time. Places are hardly ever as bad as people say.

Sometimes they are worse.

Ive visited alot of bad projects to buy stuff and nothing bad has ever happened to me but that doesn't mean the place wasn't dangerous.

Places don't get a bad rep for no reason.

**Exo** · 07-19-2015, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by downwardspiral

I find that people are very quick to jump to conclusions when it comes to talking about less desirable suburbs. And a lot of the time they've either never visited or have visited but not in a very long time. Places are hardly ever as bad as people say.

This is how you get mugged.

Plankton · 07-19-2015, 10:18 AM

"Kids, are you noticing all this plight?"

Key · 07-19-2015, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

It's kind of funny that the posts which didn't follow the rules have been the only ones that got responses.

Like I said in my response to TH, those posts actually make the thread interesting and worthy of discussion.

ladyislingering · 07-19-2015, 10:55 AM

I figured I may as well post a song that accurately sums up the town I grew up in, with its many soccer moms, townies, drunks, and white picket fence nonsense families.

**Janszoon** · 07-19-2015, 11:10 AM

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Like I said in my response to TH, those posts actually make the thread interesting and worthy of discussion.

I think the posts that are actually what he was looking for are also interesting, but no one replies to them for some reason.

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