[Clemenza]

Yes...I thought Compton in 1990 looked pretty middle class to me. There are much worse hoods:

When my father was doing a brief stint in LA back in 1970, he drove through South Central LA near the Watts Towers. He found it hard to believe that the "ghetto" in LA consisted of single-family homes with well-tended lawns. Keep in mind that my father is from Newark, New Jersey, so he knows what a REAL ghetto looks like.

[wardaddy]

I went there to find a Western Union place for a wire transfer. I had seen Boys in Da Hood I think by then or some other hoodxploitation flick and expected either Jackson Mississpppi (Sugar Ditch style) ghetto or something like a real hood but found it to be sort of lower middle class bungalow stuff...surprising.

Most intimidating hoods I've seen would be Major Deegan expwy stuff in da Bronx or projects on Chicago's south side or around Newark. Man, when I drove by ....I was like...car please don't break down now. I'm a stone cold Peckerwood and they will know it and since I'm in Marxist turf anyhow...damn I'm unarmed..lol...I drove the Deegan a lot for years.

Most dangerous hoods I've lived near would have to have been those in Miami. There is a seething anger and hostility there I have not felt elsewhere but my old hometown is getting there.

For the record...I have never felt or had a probelm in an hispanic hood except for a mild fistfight with some Rican punks on upper Columbus in 83. I have been in some pretty bad hoods in Bogota and Rio too but I had security...without that...it would have been really bad....as in suicidal.

I tell you where else has some bad hoods...some of which are quite white....England...and their Jamaican hoods are rough.....which brings to mind JA...man Kingston has some very dangerous hoods....Trench, Denham,Jones-towns and Wareika Hills.....mean sumbitch turf for sure.

ok rant off