Posted on 11/21/2005 7:18:39 PM PST by Lorianne
Cities over 500,000:
Safest 10
San Jose, CA El Paso, TX Honolulu, HI New York, NY Austin, TX San Diego, CA Louisville, KY San Antonio, TX Fort Worth, TX Jacksonville, FL
Most Dangerous 10:
Detroit, MI Baltimore, MD Washington, DC Memphis, TN Dallas, TX Philadelphia, PA Columbus, OH Nashville, TN Houston, TX Charlotte, NC
Thanks for the correction. I took a shot at it, and missed. :)
Didn't the ex-school supt. in Dallas spend a lot of tax money buying furniture or something?
Oh, I would have "guessed"! N.Y.C, goes through great revitalization every few decades.
What I wouldn't have ever guessed, is the grand upgrades made to HELL'S KITCHEN; which is now filling up with LUXURY condos!
No problem. :-)
I used to enjoy getting Texas Monthly, being a displaced Texan. It always had great stories and photography, and brought home the old feel of being in Texas to me. Then, it seems they changed editors a couple of years ago, and it turned into a liberal spewing rag seemingly overnight. I finally, sadly, eventually cancelled my subscription.
Liberal half-truthful diatribes wrapped around recipes and recommendations for meals that no real Texan would consider ever preparing.
That rot about people in small towns being friendlier? Don't buy it. I had more friends after 6 months in the metroplex than in 10 years in the country.
Harlem is next. It simply is too geographically desirable. I suspect the gays will hit it hard, as the pioneers. Some of them will make millions.
There are places in Dallas that I would visit WAY SOONER than certain places in Fort Worth.
But with that said, I've been, at one time or another, within probably 2 miles of every inch of Dallas county, and if even part of it is in the worst 10, I feel pretty good about that. By that I mean, the others can't be too bad. On the other hand, there are places I've been that I have no trouble going that I wouldn't dare let my wife get anywhere near.
It's the city of Dallas, not the county. Half the cities in the metroplex are in Dallas County, with much lower crime rates.
"...I do notice some common factors among the safest, and common factors among the unsafest..."
Some liberal from DU is likely going to visit this forum and call you a racist for those terrible thoughts!
~ Blue Jays ~
That's the truth though . Both those towns are as different as day and night.
Harlem is in the midst of a HUGE gentrification, with grand old brownstones being reclaimed and that is outside of SUGAR HILL, which never did get laid waste to.
And old apartment buildings, at the lower edges of Harlem, have already been yuppiefied, with young married couples with small children moving in, in large numbers. It's been sort of a reverse RED LINNING kind of thing.
Most decent parts of Harlem are long sold to big monet real estate people already .Just gonna sit on it a bit . There are some gREAT buildings on the east side. I looked around already , all the good property is gone gone gone in Harlem.
My Dad grew up in Hell's Kitchen in the '40s. Neither he nor I could afford to live there now, I'm sure.
I've always disliked Texas Monthly. However, I worked for years at the Austin Fire Department, and Texas Monthly's head case owner, Mike Levy, used to ride out with Austin EMS all the time. I hate his guts. He'd show up at incidents and start trying to order the emergency personnel around. I got my first taste of journalists fabricating stories when he had Paul Burka write a hit piece on the Austin Fire Department. One of the misrepresentations about the department was that a lift pump wasn't working at one of the stations. The article made it sound like the pump on the fire truck was out. Left out of the article was his personal animosity towards the fire chief, and the fact that the article was a retaliation. Texas Monthly lives up to the journalism standards set by Dan Rather.
I didn't know that. I have a close friend who moved to downtown LA a few months ago from the suburbs because he hated his hour-long drive to grad school at USC. He is always talking about the difference between the growing Hispanic South-Central LA (where I think USC is located) and the traditional black South-Central LA.
He likes it there a lot, and I keep meaning to visit him because I haven't been to LA in 10 years.
That is funny. And accurate.
Clearly I am, apparently. :) Is it Spanish (Puerto Rican) east Harlem or black Harlem, or both?
I grew up in Manhattan too and can't believe the RADICAL changes!
I never ever thought that I would live to see the day when Times Square and the surrounding area would be cleaned up.
I couldn't have ever imagined that the THOMPSON SQUARE PARK area would EVER be cleaned up either.
Slums and elegant neighborhoods have always been in constant flux, in Manhattan; however, in all of its history, they were switched...what was once "elegant" became slum and what was once an OMG..YOU DON'T EVER WANT TO LIVE THERE, became elegant. Now, slums are being pushed outwards to the suburbs, as N.Y.C. just become nicer and nicer. *shrugs*
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