Scariest Ghetto YOU have ever been in?
 

What is the Scariest GHETTO you have been in ... in America....?

Not shit you have heard about.... but you have actually been in?
And been scared...? (most of us trying to get drugs)

NAME YOUR TOP 3---NO MORE


Houston's 5th Ward is scary....

New Orleans --- Galvez Street.... gun to throat.... shit in pants.


Oakland.... 8th and Peters street... on the Northend.... back in the mid 90s
OUCH!

I got lost in Oakland, once - but I was too stupid to be scared. Dumbass white boy rollin' in my G-Body, I asked how to get back on the highway. The crackhead who tried to point towards the road was actually quite nice.

pittsburgh, the hill district

skid row downtown la

Hill Top .. Tacoma WA.

Nickerson Gardens

North Philly.

:costumed13:ticking:smokin:ticking:Grrrrrr:ticking :stoned:ticking:disgust:ticking

cleveland ohio at around 2 to 3am middle of project type area. In a little white neon in a total accidental "Im not lost" male wont get directions thing lol.

Tenderloin, SF

Cleveland has spots as bad as NYC in the 80's :BangBang:

I was in the NE area of I275 & I4 - Tampa, FL recently - not sure if it was the worst, but at 2:00 am it is gun-in-hand, don't stop for red lights conditions.

beverly hills 90210

Brickell Avenue in Miami, after 6PM.
We were told not to be there after 6, but one of our friends was delayed who knows where, and we had to wait for him.
It was still daylight, but it was like magic. One min the street was full of tourists and happy people buying in the famous comercial area, the next min everyone dissapeared an a lot of dirty-skinny-long haired-unshaved men were asking us for money or booze.
There were so many of them! Still don't know where those people were 10 mins before, because we didn't see them anywhere.
Fortuantely, our friend arrived and we got the hell out of there. :)

I second this one........

Hillside slum in Rio.

mm i'd agree, but the hillside slum i went to, altho it was ruled by druglords, didnt seem so scary, maybe cuz we were with a tour group that donated proceeds to the village and brought them business... but i wasnt scared prolly cuz i felt safe with the guide who was from there...

in the US, scariest slum ive been to/thru was harlem and the bronx... 'lock the doors, dont stop at the red light!'

this was like 20 years ago tho, dunno how it is now

downtown Detroit - i don't remember the names of the streets but it's very post-apocalyptic and eerie

haven't been to ghettos in the US but managed to find myself in a couple in Brazil, weren't too scary though. Biggest scare I had was in Porto Alegre when I was in some park with big hedges, walked around and suddenly found myself in a place where it was just me and about 20 kids about 8-13 years old, all wearing gold chains and new nikes. They started asking me something and when realized I wasn't Brazilian I was surrounded pretty fast, fortunately I didn't have my wallet or anything in my pocket so I only lost like 20$, what really scared me was I could see one of them (like 10 years old) had a gun tucked away in the back of his shorts... and these kids over there don't hesitate to use guns if they just feel like it. But I lived to tell the tale :D

There's a ghetto in Valdosta, GA.. while stationed out there, they warned the GIs not to cross the tracks and enter this area after dark.

I drove through the community during the day as a shortcut to the airport. It was bad slums and not a whitey in site.

A friend and I were in a cab ... The language barrier made it worse.

I grew up in DC and there were pretty rough areas ...

I used to frequent the area late night all alone, after a night of bar drunkenness... and to be honest, as far as ghettos go, i really didn't feel uneasy. A few of the crack heads around there were surprisingly helpful in getting me what i needed...

the thing i miss most was that sunf lower spa... oh Jessica how i miss thee.. :(

If you ask that about Canada, you won't get any replies. We don't have ghettos.
:thumbsup

Lagos, Nigeria. Some bad spots there.

I live a half mile out of detroit so everyday when I go a half mile west is the worst getto I have ever been in

the 8th mile

wrong turn in Miami

Oakland
St. Louis
Harlem/The Bronx
Cleveland

When you see the 12 year olds all armed up it gets pretty tense for me. I won't go into those places because of that.

That is a myth

Flemingdon Park is a ver scary place at night!

"Bound by Hwy. 400 and Jane St. to the west, Dufferin St. to the east, Steeles Ave. to the north and Grandravine Dr. and Sheppard Ave. to the south, Ward 8 has for years held claim to a higher rate of immigrants, single parents, low-income families, rental households and unemployment than the rest of Toronto.

The 2001 census found 67.6% of the ward's occupied private dwellings were rented, compared to 49.3% in all of Toronto.

Of residents older than 20, 17.5% had less than a Grade 9 education, compared to the city's 10.8%, and more than 20% didn't graduate from high school, compared to Toronto's 14.3%.

Low-income families made up 35.4% of Ward 8's population, compared to Toronto's 19.4%. Nearly twice as many residents in Ward 8 made less than $10,000 in total annual household income, while less than half made $100,000 or more."

source:http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0...-s-cities.html

source 2:http://www.ontariotenants.ca/article...ts-01b03.phtml

Definitely Detroit - its like one big Mad Max movie.

Great for urban exploration photography, though (if you survive) :1orglaugh

I'd also name sections of Newark, New Jersey.

No ghetto? Try the skidrow in Vancouver! People with the needle in their arm laying on the sidewalk, half dead junkies asking for change, the famous Needle Park where you dont walk or sit. I could go on but the corner of Main and Hasting is something to see.

A buddy lived in Flemingdon Park (across from the Science Centre) back in the 80s. I agree - not a great place at night.

Jane/Finch is also not the place to wander around in after dark.

Some place in Detroit.

The sad part is I don't think we were even in the real slum area, this was more of the outskirts of the industrial section, with a bunch of factories near by. My dad used to do expediting for a trucking company and we were delivering some auto parts to a GM plant.

The places off the main highways looked like the aftermath of a nuclear war, and the only things that survived were very poor black people. And it looked like people purposely dumped trash everywhere just so it would be constantly blowing around.

GFY on the internet, Lots of crackheads and everybody looking to rob you

capetown, south africa

sketchy as fuck :2 cents:

Lake Buena Vista outside of Orlando.

I'm a super white boy from Texas, my ghetto adventures are rather limited.

However I did live in Albany Georgia for 2 years, which has one of the highest murder rates in the country. One area of town I would drive through, I wouldn't call ghetto but possibly the poorest living conditions I have ever witnessed.

I could see straight into these peoples homes, blankets for doors, no grass in a very green area, black boys playing stick ball in the street, and everyone staring me down wondering why I was driving by.

In a tattoo shop not to far away, I went out back to have a smoke, and found a dead body laying the ally. Also had a fat white girl come running up to me one day, crying, begging for help.. She had just been gang rapped, it never made the news.

Either way, crazy crazy shit to me, never really thought if it was the ghetto or not.

Newark isn't that horrible. OK parts of it are.

Paterson is way up there.

The worse ghetto I think I've ever been in, Cabrini Green area. I left some party that was being held in the basement of some abandoned factory, made a few wrong turns and wound up in there at 3 am. There were kids who couldn't have been more than 8-10 playing in the street. That was scary.

Northern inlands of Brazil ... I was doing a 2 months bicycle trip through the north of the country and one evening we passed through a city that was built around some factories.

It was like in the middle of nowhere .... dark, shitty, with a couple of factories showing on the skyline. In these places, people work for $.50 an hour ... life isn't "great" ... I didn't see a single person in this city as we passed through but, I had this gut feeling that somehow this was the most dangerous place we've been in through our entire trip.

And I did have guns pulled on me in other places ... they just didn't have that same feeling of hopelessness.

Brrr ... shitty fucking place. Northern Inlands of Brazil is bordering on slavery....

Kingston Jamaica

Zona 18 Guatemala City when the war was still on. I was strapped and it was still fucking scary. Got attacked by some guy with a blood filled syringe there once.

Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 1981. I'd only been in the US about six weeks when I got off the F train a couple stops too early on the way to meet friends in Park Slope one evening. As I walked in what I thought was the right direction, I noticed the neighborhood suddenly got a lot worse--broken glass on the sidewalk, a couple burned out cars--and I must've looked really out of place as I was wearing a business suit and a London Fog raincoat. I turned a corner and there was a group of about 30 guys just hanging out, which as it was mid-November around 9PM at night, wasn't a good sign. I found a liquor store, which was built like a fortress with bulletproof glass everywhere, and called my friends, who set out to get me. My friends came along after about 20 minutes, but they were the longest 20 minutes of my life.

Northside of Mnpls, MN.

I was just trying to think of somewhere bad in the 32 years of my life, and I really can't think of anywhere, reading all these stories on this post make me really appreciate Canada.

living in the City, if i walked outside with my pellet gun, the cops would be here in mins.

not sure how you guys get away with it.

Marrero, Louisiana

Id love to see some footage of all these places.

thats the result of having lots of white people and few ______.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7QGon3B0FJc&feature=related

haha

I would have to say lost in Detroit wasn't fun. Me and my pops in his van looking for our Hotel. Took a right turn down the wrong street to say the least. lol