Born & bred in St. Louis, pal, so screw you and your pedantic uninformed view of the world.
BTW, picked up my masters degree from a college in Indiana so lived there for three years while I completed the program.
Talk about a feral hell - with ZERO islands of prosperity to brag about. Go crawl back into mommy's basement and leave the discussion to the grownups.
Sorry about your butthurt, but the facts are the facts, St. Louis city is exactly that.
Do we even need to go into the crime stats??
(By the way, I worked at Lambert, circa 99-2001)