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Originally Posted by ThePhun1
Camden? Gary? Parts of Baltimore? The South Bronx? San Bernardino (because of the low median income)?
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The South Bronx has a low median income but isn't remotely decayed-looking. In fact it's one of the fastest growing sections of NYC, with luxury highrise towers going up. There hasn't been abandonment in a couple of decades now.
San Bernadino is poor and messed up, but never had abandonment, ever. Like all poor areas of SoCal, it's thriving.
There are some pretty bad sections of Baltimore and Camden, but not really totally bombed-out, empty sections, like you would get in E. St. Louis. Even Detroit isn't quite as empty, not even Detroit's East Side.
I've never seen anything as apocalyptic as E. St. Louis in any major metro. Even Gary isn't quite as bad, but it probably comes closest. Saginaw and Flint too, but they're smaller metros.