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[Stormhammer]

Lolwut, that area used to be bad about ten years ago, it's quite nice now.

well e3 2006 was almost 10 years ago..

and whenever i've been in baltimore i always felt the need to watch my back. it didn't help that when some dudes across the street were taunting us, my friends decided to mock them and then the real threats started. wanted to do those dudes a favor and knock my friends out for them :/

 

[Javaman]

While not on this list, a neighborhood here in upstate SC made other lists to my shock. It's the Woodside community in Greenville, SC...

http://google-street-view.com/top-25-most-dangerous-neighborhoods-in-america/

http://elseshare.com/dangerous-neighborhoods/

I live in the same neck of the woods as you and am surprised that Anderson didn't make the list. Some parts of Greenwood are going in the shitter too.

 

[NerdEyeBlind]

Illinois is a death trap, as I've been saying for years

Spoiler

GO PACK GO

 

[sappyday]

YAY!!! Now I can finally go to Hawkins House of Burgers since Watts is safe now!
[[url]http://unitedgangs.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/grapestreetshotbu8.png/img][/url]
[img]http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/111/511936c89255451abc7c04b7b7ba17a9/l.jpg

Totally safe now guys!

I'm pretty sure everyone in LA figured out how to evade these gangs.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

Camden is definitely a lot better than it once was. Good to see it no longer number 1.

 

[IchigoSharingan]

No Los Angeles? I remember being warned not to go out at night when I was there for E3 in 2006. It was an area a few blocks from the Staples Center too, kind of surprising.

as an LA native and e3 attendee i'll tell you the same advice haha

 

[fluffydelusions]

Camden is definitely a lot better than it once was. Good to see it no longer number 1.

Looks like Watch_Dogs is getting Camden DLC lol
https://twitter.com/watchdogsgame/status/493799933602852866

 

[indigo-cyclops]

Surprised Rochester is there and not Buffalo.

Same here, though Rochester is in a really bad place.

 

[Sickness702]

I'm pretty sure everyone in LA figured out how to evade these gangs.

LA is different than Watts. The photos posted are from the projects which happen to be located in Watts. In LA you can avoid high risk neighborhoods but in Watts, everywhere is high risk due to the projects.

 

[mollipen]

Lolwut, that area used to be bad about ten years ago, it's quite nice now.

Yeah, no. The area DIRECTLY next to the LA Convention Center is now one of those "let's have a bunch of corporations make a little area that's supposed to be a bustling downtown district", but walk a block or two in almost any direction and you're back to wastelands again.

I don't know that any of it is super scary, but there are definitely sketchy areas, and there is little to no reason to be in the general area of E3 once the show is over. It really is a wasteland, which is a shame.

Go further east, and you do hit some streets where there's a lot of stuff going on, but they're also streets where I think people used to suburbia could get scared off pretty quick.

 

[CrankyJay]

In my experience, the best food comes from dirty looking buildings in bad areas.

and cash only

 

[Volcane]

Ok, so if I ever go to america, avoid Illinois and Michigan.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

Looks like Watch_Dogs is getting Camden DLC lol
https://twitter.com/watchdogsgame/status/493799933602852866

I mean there's the water front and the university there along with a bunch of run down houses so I don't know how they'd make that interesting at all.

Camden is really, really small.

 

[victreeb3l]

Yay didnt see NYC up there. I mean NYC still has its fair share of shit holes but I guess nothing that bad.

 

[ScottSullivan]

I can speak for saginaw MI being accurate. I got mugged a couple of times and that was living in one of the "nicer" areas of town

 

[mre]

I'm surprised nothing in Alabama made the list.

Maybe back in the 2000s it would have made the list somewhere.

Just another study where Alabama lags behind its neighboring states.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Yay didnt see NYC up there. I mean NYC still has its fair share of shit holes but I guess nothing that bad.

I never see NYC in these anymore.

 

[acheron_xl]

Ok, so if I ever go to america, avoid Illinois and Michigan.

You're fine in small-town Illinois. Rural Michigan has right-wing militias and juggalos, so I'd avoid it.

 

[JDeluis]

YAY!!! Now I can finally go to Hawkins House of Burgers since Watts is safe now!

Had not heard about this place. Bookmarked. I'll check out this week. I'm only 10 minutes away.

 

[ZoddGutts]

Lolwut, that area used to be bad about ten years ago, it's quite nice now.

Yeah, it's no longer a shithole that it once was.

 

[El_Chino]

Glad to see NYC isn't up there but some parts should be.

 

[InsanerBrainer]

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: NE 37th St. at N. Martin Luther King Ave. – 81.31

The funny part is the Department of Public Safety is right there lol

 

[hateradio]

Yeah, no. The area DIRECTLY next to the LA Convention Center is now one of those "let's have a bunch of corporations make a little area that's supposed to be a bustling downtown district", but walk a block or two in almost any direction and you're back to wastelands again.

I don't know that any of it is super scary, but there are definitely sketchy areas, and there is little to no reason to be in the general area of E3 once the show is over. It really is a wasteland, which is a shame.

Go further east, and you do hit some streets where there's a lot of stuff going on, but they're also streets where I think people used to suburbia could get scared off pretty quick.

To be honest, most of LA is kinda shitty looking, especially the center. If it's not a designated renovated area, as you mentioned, the surrounding places will be kinda shitty.

Fortunately, I guess, crime isn't that high?

 

[charsace]

I can't imagine that there are places worse than Camden. They must be absolute war zones.

 

[glow]

Chicago, Illinois: S. Pulaski Rd. at W. Lexington St. – 71.55

This used to be one of the best outdoor pharmacies in Chicago. Actually everywhere along Pulaski south of Chicago Ave. "ROCKS, BLOWS!!!" all down the streets. Drive-thru service that would put McDonalds and Burger King to shame.

 

[Amensalism]

California is losing its street cred.

 

[led4lyfe]

Doesn't exist. First off, it's Marais St. Secondly, these two streets don't even cross. They stop. The location would put it about the middle of a housing development, a place where people don't even walk. People barely even live in the Iberville PJ's anymore.

I'm not contesting that we don't have realy problems; we do. but give a real location, not some scare tactic location where people don't even walk. It's not even a neighborhood.

Thought I was going crazy, because yea you're right those streets don't even cross. Maybe they meant the entire 7th Ward.

I live in a nice area in Gentilly, love it.

 

[charsace]

Yay didnt see NYC up there. I mean NYC still has its fair share of shit holes but I guess nothing that bad.

Most of the people in NYC just avoid them. I know I do.

 

[ConradCervantes]

The Midwest, so boring that all we do is kill each other.

 

[cajunator]

why is there a BP gas station at several of these corners?

 

[indigo-cyclops]

This used to be one of the best outdoor pharmacies in Chicago. Actually everywhere along Pulaski south of Chicago Ave. "ROCKS, BLOWS!!!" all down the streets. Drive-thru service that would put McDonalds and Burger King to shame.

Used to? What changed, in all seriousness? I would presume that most of the places on this list would be score spots if you had the balls to venture through them.

 

[cajunator]

Also some of these seem kind of weird. the Memphis location is on some rural highway outside the city with a handful of houses next to it. Strange place to commit crime.

 

[BinaryPork2737]

Baltimore, Maryland: E. Oliver St. at N. Broadway – 80.49

Sounds about right.

 

[potam]

Apparently I live about 2 miles from #3. Maybe I need to buy a gun.

 

[cajunator]

The Baton Rouge one is the mall....
I guess that makes sense then.

 

[Desi]

Baltimore Maryland checking in here.

Martin Luther King Ave. is not surprising at all. That's one of those places you don't go to under any circumstances unless you have no choice.

Edit: I feel dumb I thought it was talking about Martin Luther King Blvd which is still bad. But Oliver and Broadway is still a dangerous ass place.

I think we are doing good. Progress and all that.

Northeast Market has shit on Lexington though. Unless I was biking through patterson park and just ended up there I wouldn't even waste my time there.

 

[AuthenticM]

What's wrong with Illinois ?

 

[glow]

Used to? What changed, in all seriousness? I would presume that most of the places on this list would be score spots if you had the balls to venture through them.

Well, it probably still is but I wouldn't know since I don't deliberately go into those kind of neighborhoods anymore. This was a big spot for junkies in the area and people coming into the city to score since it's right near the expressway. The West Side isn't in the news like the South Side is because it's generally less about random violence and more about drug dealing. The gangs are more organized and co-exist more peacefully, it's about business. White junkies from the west suburbs and north side will go to the near west side and west side to score, drug markets on the south side are too sketchy. Cops tend to look the other way is what I noticed when i used to go to these neighborhoods. It's hard to crack down on these types of areas because like I said in my last post, the dealing is EVERYWHERE. If Lexington and Pulaski area is one of the worst in the country, something has changed. The power structure in the gangs might have changed or a new crew popped up. I don't know. I should check out the EveryBlock police blotters and see what's going on.

 

[pompidu]

Rochester, New York: Orange St. at W. Broad St. – 88.20

Shocked this isn't Clifford and Joseph Ave. Place is scary.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Apparently I live about 2 miles from #3. Maybe I need to buy a gun.

I'm unfamiliar with that city but if it's similar to NYC than you will have nice areas that a couple blocks away will be bad ones.

 

[TxdoHawk]

Camden I'm not too surprised about. I'm a little shocked nowhere in Newark made the list though...

 

[Secret_asian_man]

HAHA... Nothing in Florida. Kiss my ass Bugs Bunny meme!

Lolol. My reaction too.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Lolol. My reaction too.

I always thought people made fun of it because of the crazy shit you hear about not the violent neighborhoods.

 

[ZoddGutts]

I always thought people made fun of it because of the crazy shit you hear about not the violent neighborhoods.

.

 

[speculawyer]

Damn . . . Detroit makes the list 3 times and Chicago is on it 2 times. Ouch.

The rust belt be hurting.

 

[Sickness702]

Had not heard about this place. Bookmarked. I'll check out this week. I'm only 10 minutes away.

I actually go there every time I go back home. The burger with a hotlink on it is my favorite

 

[Sickness702]

California is losing its street cred.

There is a lot of racial tension in the streets right now. There is major shit going down in the California prison system that has the streets on high alert. That's probably why crime is down... At least same race crime.

 

[neurosisxeno]

Saginaw, Michigan: E. Holland Ave. at E. Genesee Ave. – 93.65
Saginaw, Michigan: Lapeer Ave. at E. Genesee Ave. – 73.17

Looks like E. Genesee Ave. in Saginaw is not a place to hang out on a Saturday night.

Don't be hating on Rick's Service Center and the Holiday Party Store.

 

[Couleurs]

East St. Louis and St. Louis aren't the same city though, right?

They're close, yeah, but there is a state line and the Mississippi River between them.

I have family in St. Louis, MO and none of them would ever set foot in East St. Louis, IL.

It's fine if you are parking at the Casino Queen and taking the Metrolink across the river for Cards games (it's where I always park when I go to games and have never had problems). If you miss the turn to get on the interstate after the game is over though, you are FUCKED.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

I hate reading lists like these, knowing New Orleans is going to be on there, and then always thinking of neighborhoods I think of as worse.

The Baton Rouge one is the mall....
I guess that makes sense then.

That's the Cortana Mall I guess?