[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

[cyborg]

My aunt lives in South Central, granted it's not where the gangs are but it's a mix of middle class families and retired old people. Like poverty in America, no one has seen a real 'hood till they've been outside America.

[Clemenza]

Most dangerous hoods I've lived near would have to have been those in Miami

NW 79th Street ESPECIALLY west of I-95 has got to be the scariest place I have ever driven on. Even the worst colonia in Mexico DF seemes safer and at least places like East New York in Brooklyn have some "normal" blocks. Hell, I even hated driving toward the causeway east of I-95. Its crackwhore central up to the intercoastal on that street!

[Torie]

The Woodlawn ghetto neighborhood just south of the University of Chicago was literally burnt to the ground while I was a student there, I guess for the insurance money. The population there dropped from 70,000 to 20,000 in five years. I assume it has improved since with new housing. I once walked three blocks through it with about 10 fellas to a chinese restaurant on 63rd street. It was like out of a Fellini film. Hundreds of kids on the streets smoking dope or drinking booze, broken glass everywhere, no grass, broken windows, you name it. But for some reason, they ignored us. Odd. But the worst of the worst was Oakwood from 47th to 35th street just off the lake. That place looked like Dresden after Churchill did his number on it.