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What are the most beatdown places you've visited?

Dunbar ain't that bad, it's right by Johns Hopkins
 
ATLDeac said:
Jenkinjones, WV.
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Had family in that area, though I think most have moved on to the big cities of Princeton or Beckley. My father's family (father, uncles, etc) all used to work in the coal mines around there.
 
BarcaDeac said:
Lumberton
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Reasonable nomination, but for perspective, to the people in the rest of Robeson and nearby counties (I'm from a border county) Lumberton is a cultural center. This is said with no irony whatsoever.
 
JDawg said:
Dunbar ain't that bad, it's right by Johns Hopkins
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It wasn't so much the direct Dunbar area, but the drive I ended up making across half of the city to get there. What I remember about Dunbar is that it was a brick brick square building with absolutey no windows. Though I think I do recall a couple of housing projects across the street. Of course this was 15 plus years ago, so who knows if things are still the same. Or if I am even remembering correctly.
 
There are 60+ square block areas of North and West Philly that are near Detroit level blight.
 
Mexico about 30 mins outside of Cancun.

West Virginia and Louisiana southwest of Nola, but I would say that these areas are more just rural than beatdown. They were never anything to begin with, unlike Detroit which was something and now is nothing.
 
bowman sc.. just the worst place
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The thing that struck me about Detroit was just the scope of the emptiness. Lots of cities have parts of it that can compare to Detroit, but not as widespread or the original towns just weren't as big. When I visited last fall the place was just fucking dead. I'd read some stuff about hipsters and artists making some revitalization efforts, but there weren't even pockets of activity. One bar here, ten minute drive to restaurant there. Not bad little spots, but no density at all.
 
I've spent many summers in some of the worst neighborhoods of Memphis, Tennessee. It was necessarily because beaten down (it was), but more of the fact that sometimes I wouldn't feel safe walking down the street in the afternoon.
 
Eastern Turkey, northern Iraq after the 1st Gulf War...I swear it looked like the Stone Age....felt so bad for the people who have to live there with zero hope of improving their lot.
 
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