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Old Posted Aug 26, 2019, 9:43 PM
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Does it? I’ve tried looking into the numbers for the Chicagoland area and outside of the city, there are very few murders.
Gary, I'm sure. Probably also some South Side suburbs like Dolton, Riverdale, Harvey.
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2019, 9:49 PM
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Gary, I'm sure. Probably also some South Side suburbs like Dolton, Riverdale, Harvey.
and maywood in the western burbs also has a reputation for gang violence, though i have no numbers.
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2019, 9:59 PM
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Does it? I’ve tried looking into the numbers for the Chicagoland area and outside of the city, there are very few murders. Will County has had 30 since 2018. That seems to be the highest outside of Cook. The vast majority of homicides in Cook County are in the city.
The the ones mentioned already have bad reputations, from what I remember. Anyway, LA isn't some sort of outlier with scary suburbs. Prince Georges County seems to the roughest, going off the numbers.

There's only 3 suburbs or so they have serious murder issues in the LA area. Compton, San Bernardino, and Pomona. So I dont know what Phun is talking about. And San Bernardino is 60 freaking miles away.

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Old Posted Aug 26, 2019, 10:18 PM
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You're kidding right? Chicago has suburbs that are pretty violent. So does NYC, DC, etc. LA isn't different in this at all. This isn't the 1990s anymore. "Scary" Long Beach has one of the lowest murder rates for cities over 400,000. Meanwhile, Prince Georges County's murder rate is among the worst in the country.

Your city is much more violent and crime ridden than what LA is. Skew your facts all you want. Seems weird a guy from Houston is calling LA's crime out.

That said, I love Chicago, but there is def a issue going on with the redline. I follow Chicago news, and there is a disturbing pattern of random people getting attacked/mugged
more frequently than they should around red line stations.
I never said that other places didn't. But LA is a unique animal in that it has suburban areas in the city limits and urban areas just outside it. Not that other places don't but it is more pronounced.

Most importantly, my point was only about violent crime/murders spread out over a metro area and how municipal boundaries, just as with population, give a distorted picture. And given that I was born in San Bernardino County and have lived all over LA County, if anything I'd be biased for LA in any conversation.
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2019, 10:24 PM
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And those areas aren't what they used to be. As bad as Compton is, it's murders are way down from 10-20 years ago. San Bernardino is the worst, and doesn't appear to be getting better. But it's 60 miles away, and not really LA anyway.

It's not a distorted picture. There's only a few bad suburbs in LA metro, just like anywhere else.
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2019, 11:03 PM
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Compton, to my experience, was never as bad as its reputation suggested anyways, at least not all of it. Me and my family knew plenty of suburban/middle class people from there in the 80's and into the 90's. Seems to me Dr. Dre was just trying to sell records.

I was thrilled to have been associated with a place like Carson, granted the school system sucked as compared to what I got in suburban Houston.
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2019, 11:17 PM
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Compton, to my experience, was never as bad as its reputation suggested anyways, at least not all of it. Me and my family knew plenty of suburban/middle class people from there in the 80's and into the 90's. Seems to me Dr. Dre was just trying to sell records.

I was thrilled to have been associated with a place like Carson, granted the school system sucked as compared to what I got in suburban Houston.
Compton recorded something like 100 murders annually in the 1990s, this is in a city of just 90,000.

E] This is from Yahoo! Interestingly, it did use 1985, the formative years of Dr. Dre and NWA and compared it with 2010 Detroit:

---Detroit----
Crime rates (2010)
Crime type Rate* per 100,000 people
Homicide: 34.4
Forcible rape: 45.0
Robbery: 615.7
Aggravated assault: 1,192.1

----Compton---
Crime rates (1985)
Crime type Rate* per 100,00 people
Homicide: 62.9
Forcible rape: 154.4
Robbery 1,276.2
Aggravated assault 1,299.4

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...2175925AAFBZEd
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Yea, it was pretty bad. Still is, but thankfully, far from it's bloodbath peak. People were scared of that place for a reason.
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Old Posted Aug 26, 2019, 11:27 PM
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Must have lived up to its pop culture rep after we left. My grandparents had friendships with classy suburbaites from Compton, including the mother of a pretty notable resident.
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Yeah, I agree with this. Cleveland does have some really nice areas, and some top notch cultural institutions (art museum, symphony, rock hall). But in terms of offering vibrant, walkable neighborhoods, there is very, very little to pick from. Almost all of the neighborhoods are characterized by very plain looking detached housing. Very little brick or ornamentation, very few functioning business districts...just kind of utilitarian. Downtown is clean but very quiet and hardly any street level retail, even when it comes to little corner stores and the like. You can walk for blocks in downtown Cleveland and not come across a single commercial use. That was shocking when I visited for the first time.

Ohio City is pretty nice. Never got the appeal of their other 'premier' neighborhood of Tremont, though. It has some nice restaurants and bars, but they feel just scattered throughout the neighborhood rather than forming any real district. And for all the hype I had seen about Tremont, I found it quite non-descript at best, ugly at worst. This doesn't seem like a neighborhood deserving of the hype it gets: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4805...7i13312!8i6656

That said, there is some cool stuff in Cleveland. I really like their Little Italy, even if it's tiny. I think Shaker Square is very cool and unique, and very pretty: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4835...7i13312!8i6656

Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights are great inner suburbs, and are great areas to walk around. Lakewood isn't very pretty, but it's pretty dense and has some great bars and restaurants. There is definitely cool stuff throughout the Cleveland area, but you kind of have to work to find it. And a lot of the 'connective tissue' between the cool stuff is just boring/ugly. IMO.
Wasn't Cleveland where the river caught fire in the 70s? Stuff like that tends to mark people's consciousness. I am not even American and I recall that.
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Rivers caught fire in a bunch of US cities back in the 1870s to 1960s.

Cleveland actually did something about it, and had a lot to do with enacting local anti-pollution laws, which led to federal environmental protection regulations and agency.
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New Haven has a bad rap, probably deserved in those areas, but downtown itself is very dense and beautiful. It has some truly stunning architecture.

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...You're not going to have a dozen contiguous miles of any sort of development in a city with any meaningful topographic change.
Boston and San Francisco beg to differ.
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Old Posted Aug 27, 2019, 4:19 PM
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New Haven has a bad rap, probably deserved in those areas, but downtown itself is very dense and beautiful. It has some truly stunning architecture.



Boston and San Francisco beg to differ.
San Francisco, yes. Boston has no where near the same levels of hills as a SF, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, etc. The latter two cities have big problems with landslides which make development on the hills very difficult. SF would not be able to be built in a place like Cincinnati or Pittsburgh, because the soil is too unstable.
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Old Posted Aug 27, 2019, 6:49 PM
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San Francisco, yes. Boston has no where near the same levels of hills as a SF, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, etc. The latter two cities have big problems with landslides which make development on the hills very difficult. SF would not be able to be built in a place like Cincinnati or Pittsburgh, because the soil is too unstable.
Fun fact, Boston was originally much hillier than it is today! Those hills were cut down considerably and used to fill in land that now includes the Bulfinch Triangle, Chinatown, and much of the Back Bay.

https://historyofmassachusetts.org/h...ost-its-hills/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/n...-maps-history/

Even today, it's still hillier than given credit for. It's probably more on the lines of 1/2 the overall breadth and intensity of a Pittsburgh or San Francisco. There are plenty of steep inclines remaining. Climbing Beacon Hill is always a chore. The ascent from the beach to the Dorchester Heights monument in Southie is short but a doozy. Summit Ave in Brookline, as well as Mission Hill, are quite substantial. Prospect Hill in Somerville is also pretty steep. There are many others.
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For a city as large/important as LA, and a street as important/iconic as Wilshire, I'd say there are very few pedestrians on Wilshire in BH.

There are few pedestrians because it isn't a particularly pleasant walking experience, and the big department stores all have parking in the back, so the back becomes the main entrance.
I walked home one night from a movie in Westwood to the house I was renting on South Almont Drive (below Wilshire in the "slums") in Bev. Hills. It was about a 3 mile walk on the Sunday night following Thanksgiving in the early 1980s. The "Condo Corridor" was just getting underway replacing all the two or three story buildings that previously lined this strech of Wilshire. My walk also took me along the LA Country Club and on past the Beverly Hilton through that stretch of Wilshire in Bev. Hills lined with upscale department stores. I did not encounter a single pedestrian until I crossed the Santa Monica/ Wilshire intersection in Bev. Hills where there were a few hotel workers waiting for a bus. Now admittedly this was a loooong time ago, but I suspect not a whole lot has changed in the intervening 35 plus years. There was a popular song back then by the Missing Persons called "Walking in LA". The most catchy lyric went as follows: "Walkin' in LA,Walkin' in LA, only a nobody walks in LA". BTW, I love LA. It is still my favorite US city outside of NY.
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Old Posted Aug 27, 2019, 8:31 PM
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Any gilded age non-college town us mid size city

Scranton, pa

Syracuse, ny

Allentown, pa

Easton, pa

Flint, mi (the fake lead poisoning hoax)...beautiful downtown

Bufffalo, ny (2/3 of the metro area is very nice)

La crosse, wi (looks beautiful, I assumed it looked like Waukegan)

Columbus , oh (nicer than Indy)



Most Mid size New England cities are under praised (outside CT, CT cities deserve to be under praised)

Binghamton ny
Syracuse is a college town. The Armory Square area in downtown has a fantastic urban aesthetic and architecture. Rest of city kinda rough.
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Flint has a beautiful downtown? Could have fooled me.

Flint is a 20th century city. It was a nondescript village during the Guilded Age.
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The stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood that was picked as an example of "unwalkability" is 1) purpose-built as a boring area for boring rich people who don't want to interact with the public at all, 2) built around the corner from busy, pedestrian-oriented (and rich and boring) Westwood Village, and 3) around the corner from busy, walkable, more diverse Westwood Boulevard.

People who live in the area pictured can, if they choose not to be boring and physically attached to their cars, easily walk to three first-run movie theaters, numerous shops and eateries, art galleries, sports events, concerts, lectures, etc. There aren't many bars in the area, however, as UCLA initially barred drinking establishments within a certain proximity to campus, and that hasn't really changed much over the decades.
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Old Posted Aug 27, 2019, 9:45 PM
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Phoenix, the endless discussions on this board alone are proof

I have had people back east literally ask me if I found using elevators unusual as if Phoenix has no elevators

I think the general perception vs reality are hugely disconnected
I don't think Phoenix has a bad rap outside of this forum. To most people, it's just a nice, affordable place to live that is close by to lots of outdoor activities. In here, though, it has a deserved bad rap when you consider the two driving interests of this forum, which are skyscrapers, followed by urban prowess. It'd be like going to a Porsche forum and being shocked why people are continually crapping on Toyota Corollas.
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Old Posted Aug 27, 2019, 10:21 PM
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The stretch of Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood that was picked as an example of "unwalkability" is 1) purpose-built as a boring area for boring rich people who don't want to interact with the public at all, 2) built around the corner from busy, pedestrian-oriented (and rich and boring) Westwood Village, and 3) around the corner from busy, walkable, more diverse Westwood Boulevard.

People who live in the area pictured can, if they choose not to be boring and physically attached to their cars, easily walk to three first-run movie theaters, numerous shops and eateries, art galleries, sports events, concerts, lectures, etc. There aren't many bars in the area, however, as UCLA initially barred drinking establishments within a certain proximity to campus, and that hasn't really changed much over the decades.
Agreed. Like I said, the options are there and it's not much of a walk to Westwood Village for many of those highrises.
Westwood Village isn't a cool neighborhood in LA, but it's busy as hell, especially during the week. Alot of office towers in the area and there's friggin buses everywhere.
It acts like a small downtown. It might be the most in need off a subway station than anywhere else in LA. At the moment anyway.

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