Humbled wrote:
Flagpole Willy wrote:Detroit has to be on the list.
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PARTS of Washington DC are super bad.
Re: Detroit, it doesn't *have* to be on the list. It's got plenty of problems, sure, but it also has a lot going for it. Like some great cultural institutions, fine music venues, interesting mix of ethnicities, a rich industrial/labor/civil rights history...and a decent running scene, to boot. I think there's an element of piling on in threads like this, leading people to mention some cities as "obvious" choices (even if they don't know much about them). Hey, at least I offered to keep an open mind should someone care to defend Lima!
Re: the super bad PARTS of Washington, I assume you're talking about the areas where the lobbyists and Bush Administration apparatchiks hang out, right? Because I know you're not a racist who hates poor people.
1) I used to live in Michigan and I worked in Detriot. It's a pisshole. Buildings falling apart, grown men of employment age just hanging around on the streets during the day, the worst roads of any major city I've ever seen, drugs, crime, people leaving the city in droves. Detroit is horrible as a whole, despite the few bright spots it has.
2) Picking a part of Washington DC that is crime ridden and every other year or so ends up as the murder capital of the country does not make me against poor people or make me a racist. There are a LOT of white people in those bad areas of DC. There are a LOT of non-poor people who go to those areas for drugs and other illegal activity. Fact is there are bad areas of DC, and they are so bad that it puts DC on the worst places list. Great areas of DC too of course. I used to work on Pennsylvania Avenue. Had a great time there. I knew where not to go though.