What Are Signs You're In A Ghetto Area vs Signs You're In An Upscale Area?

Koltrain said:
I'm starting to feel like the whole US is ghetto. But in the spirit of the thread, if your neighbors got old broken down hoopties in the driveway..... then yeah
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Infrastructure and or lack thereof

I was in St Moritz Switzerland before and even beyond the obvious opulence of outrageous super cars and winter sports, the amount of pedestrian friendly infrastructure was really striking to me. All kinds of well positioned bridges elevators escalators and pathways so people can seamlessly avoid cars and access neighborhoods of different altitudes

Vs a neighborhood not having any damn sidewalk at all. The no sidewalk leading to a 4 or more lane high speed road you have to walk across that may or may not even have a cross walk....along with a quiet epidemic of pedestrians getting killed just walking down the damn street

once you get a keen eye for certain urban planning particulars that'll tell you all you need to know
 
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I've been fortunate enough to have been able to visit a couple of places. That annoyance at people hanging outside socializing be it corner stores or whatever is increasingly appearing to be a uniquely American disposition

Alot of the world has designed (or redesigned) their cities to feature centers for everyone to come out parlay and talk shit.

America has been commited to anti social urban planning... then everyone head scratches as why we got outrageous suicide ,drug abuse, and broader anti social behavior problems
 
Goldie said:
If you start seeing dogs without leashes, you've entered the ghetto/hood.
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I gotta push back on this one

Enough of these hipster hippie type white people love to have their dog freely walking with them down the street rather or not they've been properly trained for that

Luckily it tends to be those small mini dogs in my observation lol

Then the park is a whole nother monster. Dog park or not... they liable to let the dog run wild smh.
 
Now the last time I was in Memphis they had a stray dog problem unlike anything I've seen anywhere. I was like gatdamn! Packs of dogs all over the damn place

That was a minute ago though so hopefully that calmed down
 
Greg.nice said:
Infrastructure and or lack thereof

I was in St Moritz Switzerland before and even beyond the obvious opulence of outrageous super cars and winter sports, the amount of pedestrian friendly infrastructure was really striking to me. All kinds of well positioned bridges elevators escalators and pathways so people can seamlessly avoid cars and access neighborhoods of different altitudes

Vs a neighborhood not having any damn sidewalk at all. The no sidewalk leading to a 4 or more lane high speed road you have to walk across that may or may not even have a cross walk....along with a quiet epidemic of pedestrians getting killed just walking down the damn street

once you get a keen eye for certain urban planning particulars that'll tell you all you need to know
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I feel this people want walkable cities now but it’s viewed as some liberal shit. Not to mention public transportation is lacking too
 
SeaSnake said:
I feel this people want walkable cities now but it’s viewed as some liberal shit. Not to mention public transportation is lacking too
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My middle daughter came for a visit a couple of years ago and while we were out and about she was complaining about the area we live in now not being "walkable". I'm like "yes it is, you walk on the side of the road like everybody else does". I live in a rural-adjacent part of town, adjacent as in it's rural directly across the main street we live off of. I grew up in areas like this so for me you just walk on the side of the road and don't be stupid.

I think there were complaints about the spot near campus that I used to live in way back not being walkable, so a few years ago they narrowed the street from four lanes to two, threw in a bike lane on either side of the street, and paved a sidewalk on one side so folks didn't have to walk on a dirt pathway in the grass to get to the dispensary that took over an old McDonalds across the street from campus.
 
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