Anybody else live in a rough city?

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I moved from Gainesville to Miami in 1999 and stayed 7 years, Living in Kendall, I never felt it was any more 'dangerous' than G'Ville was.
I worked near Biscayne and 36th, and that was a questionable area. I always carried a .38 in a pocket holster when doing my post prandial walks.

Frankly, Gainesville is just as dangerous as Miami is.
 
Where I live there has been a rash lately of people not picking up after their dogs when they walk them. I noticed several piles this very morning.
 
Just like any city there are good parts and bad parts. Miami is no exception.

What you have to learn the first thing in a new area is where and where not to go.

The local cop station is a good place to start for info as are local businesses.

I go to Miami quite a bit for business. There are places I have no problem going to during the day. The people are real nice. But I would never go near them at night.
 
Here in Houston, one block can make all the difference. I work near the Galleria area and it's fairly decent. I go exercise at a nearby park with no problems. Just on the other side of the Southwest Freeway, less than a block away, is MS-13 central. That area is the #2 worst area of Houston, just behind Gunspoint (Greenspoint). Just to the West of Yale St. north of Loop 610 is Garden Oaks, a really nice, kind of gentrified area. Quiet, shaded by big trees, people out jogging, riding their bicycles, that sort of thing. Cross Yale and it's ghetto like crazy. That's spelled G.E.T.O because the area is so rough that they stole the "h" and one "t" out of the word "ghetto."
 
North Hollyweed, actually wasn't "rough" when I lived there (because everybody was really, really stoned) but you had to kinda watch your mouth around the dope dealers

Hilltop (Tacoma) I got there right after the shootout between the HTC & the 75th Rangers ( never did get all the details) but there were a couple murders on North Ft. Lewis that were thought to be related ( Wierd bc the Ranger barracks were on main post)

Tillicum, Home of the world famous "Tillicum Tina" ( who, I'm positive, died of AIDS looooooong ago) They didn't much care for G.I.s once you got off the strip there.

Houston: South Post Oak, Telephone Road (almost got killed there one night for saying " How's it going?" to a guy I walked past going into a 7-11) Lawndale Ave. right around the post office ( I helped build that) nice little Korean whorehouse right accross the street ( wonder if it's still there?) called the Kona Lounge

Point being I made it through all those neighborhoods W/out a gun ( W/out catching the clap from Tina or the Koreans too I might add). The key (IMO) was MYOB & be as non-descript as possible. Lessons I still live by today.
 
Only get to visit St. Louis regularly. Would like to move there for a while.
I really like it, and the further you get away from the city the better it is. Depending on where you live, St. Louis can very diverse. University City and Maplewood are cool (depending where you are :eek:) and the Central West end is a nice place. BUT they are close to STL City.

The funny thing about the "rough parts of town" is that they tend to be strangely localized. Go three blocks, and suddenly everything looks a whole lot better.

That is certainly true in smaller towns, but in large cities, rough neighborhoods can stretch quite a ways, certainly further than I can run :uhoh:

HB
 
Define rough

Couple of weeks ago a small town 7 miles west of me, ( I live in S.W. Wisconsin) had a shooting, 2 teen girls, 15 and 17 and cousins to boot, one shot the other because of an argument they were having over the internet. A few miles away in the next village a woman decides to get rid of her boyfriend by shooting him in the back 6 times and then claimed self defense, a man lived in the same trailer a couple of years earlier had shot and killed his girlfriend, burned her and buried her in her trailer house with his bulldozer. Fruitcakes are out there and the size of the town only means they live closer together. I walked in and lived in the meanest streets of Chicago, Long Beach Ca., and San Diego Ca. The closest I come to being in a danger zone was when we lived in a nice neighborhood and a college girl selling encyclopedias was raped and killed half a block from the apartment. Thats why my wife was armed with a 38 super and the police at the time told her they wished all the women were as well armed as she was. (Late 60's, early 70's). Crime is going to happen and the point is to be vigilant, not paranoid.
 
The thugs from Mijammi are moving up to Orlando. We keep having our worst crime year, every year now. More violent murders, more gun crime, more everything. I moved up from West Palm for school, and Rivera Beeach is where all the trouble is at. If you could watch that Thug life video of West Palm you know what I am talking aobut. However the west side of O-Town is waaaay worse. No micky mouse over there, just hard core go nowhere low life thugs...

And the trend to do crimes over the border in the nice areas and then run back to their rat den is becomming to common. If you think your safe, think twice and keep you SA radar fine tuned....
 
I'll see your Miami and raise you a Memphis! :evil:

The only advice I have is to keep your eyes open and pay attention to what your gut is telling you. Always carry.

I can't believe I'm giving advice to a Gator! (Can you guess where I went to grad school?) :D
 
My first day at my current residence I was asked if I wanted to purchase some drugs from a guy I helped out (car troubles on my street). I respectfully declined, then he got scared and thought I was the cops. I reassured him that I wasn't and that I just liked to help people out.

He then said that I was a good man and if I ever needed anything, I should yell "MECHANIC!" (his name, it seems) and he will "come and f*** some b****s up" for me.

Street used to be owned by some unscrupulous people. That was a few years ago though. I havn't had any trouble since and I have some really great neighbors. One even collects Enfields, which was a shocker.
 
I live in a slightly-country area about 40 minutes south of Cleveland. I generally consider my home area quite safe, with the smaller community kind of vibe. However, there have still been two bank robberies in town in teh last year. The bad elements just keep spreading. I carry about 90% of the time around town.

I work near Cleveland proper and occasionally have to go into the main center of the city and it's surrounding areas. My grandfather lives in a quite horrible area. There are some scary parts of town around there. Very run down areas that it looks like nearly everyone forgot, except for the bad guys. The kind of area where a wrong turn takes you from normal city streets to abandoned dead-end, unmaintained dirt roads in less than a block. I'm on high alert when going around those parts of town, and even armed I keep an ultra-vigilant eye on anything and everything around me.
 
West Palm Beach also and although there are very nice places around here, you don't want to be anywhere near certain areas.
Orange and Blue!
 
I work about a mile from "Riveeera Beach" area . . . and constantly hear about drive-bys, home invasions, gang activity, convenience store robberies . .etc. . etc.
I live about 5 to 10 miles south of Ft Pierce and Port St Lucie, where the cops have busted a HUGE ring of Marijuana grow houses recently and again, plenty of gang activity, home invasion and drive by's.
I carry every day and am always alert and ready. So far I have been lucky - keep a low profile, but be prepared.
Ain't it fun in our society at the moment?????????
 
romma said:
I live in a small city that is overrun with drugs and thugs. I am always on alert, I live in a not so good area as well...

Isn't MOST of CT like that? Sh^t holes like New London, Bridgeport, New Haven, Waterbury, Hartford, etc... Even the "nice" areas aren't so nice. I'm a stone's throw (which isn't saying much in this tiny state) from Cheshire which is a very wealthy area and I'm sure you know all about the Dr. Petit home invasion and murders.
 
Posted by LegalAlien:
That might be the correct spelling, but the phonetics of the local inhabitants dictates it 'slighty different'

How the locals wish to VERBALLY pronounce it, has nothing to do with how it's spelled on paper. With the written word, there's only one proper way to spell it. :neener:

Moving right along! :evil:
 
I used to fill ATM's in Miami, alone, no second or third backup guy, no armored car, actually from Homestead to West Palm since I don't do it any more I can say that, I was walking around with 6 figures in 20's every day. I never worried about it. I prepare, and live my life. I've had a home invasion, 3 attempted and one successful carjackings. A couple roberies when I had my stores in NY. But most of the time, it's not when you are prepared for such things that they happen, It's the one time you went to throw out the garbage, and just didn't feel like walking the few extra steps, to pick up a firearm. And always remember, bad guys go to good neighboorhoods to steal and rob, they already know that the people in their neighboorhood are as broke as they are. You never hear about a rich guy stealing a car or breaking into a house. Maybe killing himself because he lost all his money but other than hitting their wife and kids, rich guys usually do themselves in, rather than anything else. Miami dangerous, na, I grew up in Queens and Brooklyn, in the 50's through the 90's that makes Miami pretty average, the world is a dangerous place now stuff can find you anywhere anytime. Just don't be afraid to look the meanest one who approaches you right in the eyes, they can tell.let them know, you may get what I have, but it's going to cost you all you have.
 
I live in Hillsboro, OR. While the area I live in is relatively safe, we are starting to get some bleed over from the Hispanic gangs in downtown Hillsboro and Forest Grove. Go two miles from my house and you're in a whole different world! Have been noticing more tagging in the surrounding neighborhoods that last year or so. I've heard MS13 has started to become active in the are as well.

Armed to the teeth and thankful for it! :mad:
 
And always remember, bad guys go to good neighboorhoods to steal and rob, they already know that the people in their neighboorhood are as broke as they are.

I will never understand the people that "can't believe" it happened in their "nice" neighborhood.

Um, a little common sense? Why would Tyrone want to rob Jamal and Shaniqua in the projects only to talk away with a Colt .45 (not the gun), some pork rinds, grape soda, a half pack of Kools and food stamps? :rolleyes:

Hmmm...If I were Tyrone, I think I'd roll on out to the nice area to score cash, jewelry, nice electronics, expensive firearms, etc.
 
Because of it being a 'tourist destination' some of this wont leak out or make the news,but Vegas has for the most part become quite the 'difficult city' at least in my neighborhood.Used to be a nice little area in the SW,now turning into a gang run,drug dealing hole.

Time to buy more ammo I guess...
 
Tagging in Hillsboro pisses me off. Retarded mexicans leave graffiti all over the MAX stations and tag the signs by the airport and the JF campus.

-T
 
Quiet for the most part, but my city borders Detroit. You know, home of the jailbird mayor? It has had it's ups and downs, but we in this particular area have been vigilant to the point of dangerous when it comes to riff-raff. We go out of our way to make it just no fun to be a street punk here, and consequently, they don't seem to take hold. Safety in numbers, peace through superior firepower, and all that. Someday this area might fall, but I hope to be long out of here when it happens.
 
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