Am I wrong? If so, tell me how.

As far as big cities in the NE go, I'd agree. Either here or Baltimore. Philly also has he highest poverty rate of all big cities (it's like 29% or so).

Philly's a big city tho, there are a lot of good areas too.

my family is based in NY and we avoid it like the plague however shit happens lol

Bmore, I actually lived there for a few months and it's so damn lit up with blue lights 24 7 that I'm sure the rates are down at this point.

Dangerous areas dont excite me at all.

unless NE means something else other than northeast lol

And I think we can include more than 4 but it's okay

in 2015. so did DC

For example Quincy, Florida supposedly had an abnormally high HIV percentage but the population is only 8,000 people

Approximate populations:

Baltimore: 620,961
Philadelphia: 1,526,006
DC: 672,228


It's not just the rates. Overall, the safest mid-atlantic BIG (500k+) cities seem to be:

NYC > DC > Philly > Baltimore

it's like a big neighborhood (i.e. Harlem covering 2 sides of NY for something like 50 blocks)

from my brief understanding of Baltimore there isnt enough space for the widespread criminal element

Philly having so much more space and only 64 less murders than Baltimore says a lot

mainly because it (usually) shows how widespread of an issue it is in that city. none of this is perfect tho.

http://lawstreetmedia.com/crime-america-2015-top-10-dangerous-cities-200000-2/

btw bmore is below the mason dixon line if we wanna be technical

what cities are we including in this? Boston, NYC, Newark and Philly?
cause it's still untrue when you open it up to smaller cities.


*Baltimore is below the M/D line, buts its still a NE city as far im concerned

"Philly is abt the most dangerous NE city in america."

yourself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate_(2014)

sort by violent crime and murder rate.

Your link to show me that Philly wasn't even listed was full of cities around the country.

A link I read specified NE cities (which the subject was about) and listed it as number 3. What's so hard abt this. I'll find the link in a sec if that helps? Idk

and yes, you are covered by phrasing your OP oddly by saying "about the most dangerous." but all youre really saying is Boston and NYC are safer than Philly.

http://lawstreetmedia.com/blogs/crime/crime-america-2015-top-10-safest-dangerous-northeast-metros/

tf is lawstreetmedia lol i gotta look them up but im rolling w them for now since u brought them up

let someone else really debate if we in our everyday lexicon can call those places a city or not lol.

"A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro area or just metro, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing."

i forgot about Newark. and i have no idea how big Wilmington or Hartford, CT and Providence are. but i was thinking cities over 250k

not doing that lol

i do want to warn u though that when they detail these "metro" areas, they use the word "city" and "cities"

Includes 3 cities. One of which, Camden, is one of the most dangerous small cities in the country.

You win tho. I got a train to catch

All urban centers have areas that are so-called dangerous. Will you get shot randomly walking around North Philly in the middle of the day? No.

Also
P sure u can see how this is relevant subject
If not refer to subject all good just a post.

>Also
>P sure u can see how this is relevant subject
>If not refer to subject all good just a post.

i read this 5 times... what are you trying to say?

Not from the hood, but don't appreciate folks making baseless/sweeping judgments about a place I love. Please continue to entertain yourself though.

No sarc

>but don't appreciate folks making
>baseless/sweeping judgments about a place I love. Please
>continue to entertain yourself though.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you the one always bashing the southerners as slow, backwards, etc..? Now generalizations are bad? If I have the wrong person my bad.

I've said I don't like the south and that it's too slow for me. I've never called the people who lived there "backwards," but may have referred to the laws and lack of unions as such.

they literally report nothing but violence and sports











and in philly, those two things aint that far apart anyway lol

>and in philly, those two things aint that far apart anyway
>lol

Welp

Philly is about as dangerous as the bad parts of New York but it's about 1/4 the size
Philly is less dangerous but bigger than Camden where there are no good parts to speak of
Philly is bigger than Baltimore, DC and Boston

basically what Im saying is you can live in Philly comfortably away from the violence, so I dont agree with depicting it as a shithole. my only issue was I found it too small overall and there's a definite crab in the barrel mentality with people

the only places larger in the country are New York, LA, Houston and Chicago

it's violent for sure but you can raise a family in quiet, safe areas provided the income is there

it's like you're giving Philly a bad rap for not being as spread out as LA or NY. my comment about it being too small really dealt with social circles, the same people can see each other at parties for 6 years straight, that wore thin to me

bc it often does
plus the fact that if you are obviously an outsider bc everybody knows everybody
and niggas be on that shit ( if niggas dont be on that shit, correct me if im wrong lol) ur potential of being a vic is quite substantial. lol.

black people without much surviving the only way they know by preying on one another
the mindset is the same whether we're talking Philly, LA, Atlanta or Chicago

Yeah those places are pretty bad too but since that's the only one in the ne...here we stand with this original post

abt the most dangerous NE city in America... lol

Philly is the 2nd largest NE city but it's also a type of small?

guestlove yelled at me for using my flash and thats dumb.

i will never forget that post cause the wording of the title was hilarious

if not, my bad...

Which sucks because, abundance of grimaces and mean mugs aside, I actually really like Philly.

Btw, I live in Boston and have been to Paris and Marseille multiple times. All those places have a big reputation for grump. Philly (and Allentown) easily the shittiest attitudes, no contest, no hesitation. Perhaps Paris a close second.

lived there for 5 years. Never had a problem even tho i lived in west philly 49th and baltimore, 4th and tasker and on south and 15th.

i mostly witnessed fist fights, arguments and downright miserable people... and filth.

my wife lived by the fishmarket so i also saw an insane amount of italian family members arguing with fam and friends.

I still recreate an argument we witnessed with an old guy in a hoverround. fucking hilarious

I used to live on 15th and Catherine, love that place. Those old jazz dudes don't play there anymore, dude on the keys used to fall asleep during their set. The new band is good though. also, you can spend 12 dollars and walk out stumbling if you want to.

that band used to be off the hook.

thay was the shit i loved about Philly. All the little dive bars.

Monks, Soma, Fluid, The Fire... used to get it in.

Soma on Tues. Bruh...

People that live in Philly treat the city, it's streets and buildings like they outwardly hate it and are fighting against making their own surroundings livable. No other place in the US where you will see people just throwing garbage on the ground almost as if it's a sport or city planners trying to fuck up the historical significance of buildings and neighborhoods. Folks only defend and support their city in words when an outsider is critical, spending more time and effort trying to come up with why Philly is better than X than it would take to, you know, pick up that WaWa cup you just tossed on the ground.

we took the kids to NYC and they were amazed at how clean it is. One little Italian girl thought it was too clean so she threw her garbage in the river.

I suspended her from the program for 2 days and when her mom came to pick her up after the field trip she rolled the window down and threw an empty bag of chips out of her window... in Old City.

I used to live in S. Philly and people would open their front doors to throw trash onto the street. smh...

and this is what made Sunny in Philly so genius. Cause the way those fools scream and argue is exactly how they do it IRL.

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The blacks just want to mug you.

Like what is the end game here? You just want everyone to know (think) that Philly is really dangerous?

you were all LoL agree-y before a small hint of dissent popped up stop

whatever that means...

but what does that have to do with my half assed assumption of why you need it to be true?

your response makes me feel like i might be onto something

Preposterous things sometimes it's a flaw

Give it to me lol

...then realized it was a bad idea when she was squaring-off and all of the girls' friends from the block came off their porches.

talking bout meet me at King of Prussia if you really bout that life.

All that loud rah-rah talking will get one's jaw tapped.


I remember talking hip hop with this NYC dude a few years back, and he disagrees with me on some "NAH, SON! YO, FUCK THAT... HE'S A REAL STREET DUDE SON!"

Had me gritting on this dude for a sec wondering if he was trying to play me before he started smiling and I realized that's how those folks talk up there. They go other places and get friction tho.

once again the word choice has me crying.

I'll never forget asking Jeru if any rappers were really on that thug shit and he said nah... none of them. They all lying.

What about Beans? Jeru paused, lifted a finger and said "Well, he's not a rapper"

Every new york nigga down here starts every sentence with "back in NY..." man stfu, you aint in NY nigga.

You have to press them to find out they are from Rochester or someplace similar.

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lol, j/k

lite(aggressive but not overly) yet bigger and more diverse

like ya'll got sho-nuff Puerto Ricans & Dominicans runnin round
I fell in love like 4 times ....they r scarce down here lol

and ya'll love ya'll city...nothing but respeck from me

https://goo.gl/UCkMKT

forgot the name but its actually a chain...a very great chain though.

& yalls chinatown is pretty. lol

possibly starts with a C
may have to google bc now its bothering me lol

That's not a veg. spot tho.

please don't come back.

they prolly slipped some fat back juices in that shit

jims is my fav tho...

>please don't come back.

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nice job.

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There's better spots for cheesesteaks in the city. Not Pats or Genos, either.

I've always wondered what kind of marketing campaign they run, because it apparently works. When I had one years ago I thought it was decent, but not outstanding (disclaimer: I only used to eat chicken cheesesteaks, so I know nothing about the beef jawns). I'm a big fan of the local neighborhood spots (not in center city) that out-of-towners wouldn't find anyway.

i think so many tourists end up on South Street (for whatever reason) that Jim's ended up being an attraction. it's cool tho. and the Jim's in West Philly and Delco are straight.

but i was with philly niggas... i wouldnt go back there on my own.

Jims was my shit tho... I was raised in the burbs in Pittsburgh so maybe thats why it tasted so good.

and lol at my cousin calling me to ask wtf an ishkabibbles was... she thought dude set her up to get clowned and refused to ask someone on south st where it was..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGmB1WcahNU

Fucking two hour waits for Ginos East in Chicago?
45 minutes on line for a damn hotdog from Pinks?
Reds Eats is a shack in bumbfuck Maine that people wait three or fours in line for a $30 lobster roll?

. I've seen people get shot, killed, ran over, stabbed and until I moved I didn't realize how much of a burden that is on anyone.

after the game we copped some weed from one dude...

well, check this story out. Dude walks back to my boys crib, says he saw undercover and asked to stash his gun. Keep in mind we are backpack rap niggas who arent about that life. This nigga woke up my boy with a glock in his face. Ties him up, takes the playstation and some other shit and my boy begs him to let him keep a $20 for smokes. Dude says "aiight, my bad but someone robbed me and I have to pay for this package so i gotta do what i gotta do" puts a $20 in my boys pocket then he leaves... but he comes right back and takes the $20
and says "bruh, i cant even leave this $20 for you"

then my boy says "well, dont gag me, please dont gag me... i wont scream for help"

dude says.."yeah... good idea" and puts a rag in his mouth

when he finally got to the studio and told the story we fucking died laughing. (only cause he retold the story with jokes). When they told the landlord his first words were "you know, i watches CSI last night.." and laughed. smh...

but yeah... more than a few philly niggas i knew been tied up and robbed. one dude said he refuses to live on the first floor for that reason.

I wouldn't even cop weed from back there when I was younger. Dudes used to stay getting robbed. Grimey South Philly dudes. They tore those projects down years ago, so now the whole area is mostly gentrified.

and at another store that was a front and only had 10 bags a chips and maybe 1 or 2 sodas in it.

looking back I couldnt believe how dumb that shit was... but i didnt have a connect.

folks getting tied up and left to die after being robbed.

Your homie was lucky.

shit is real
& hope youre okay bc ptsd is realer than ppl think

for many of us in general.

sincerely

And got strung out at :/

i believe u tho

we all know how these about, type of small cities are. they are close to or somewhere in the middle type violent type cities in the northeast.

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bc off top, decatur definitely has an effect on atlanta lol
although to any place else in the world, no one is distinguishing riverdale or decatur from atlanta
u guys have allentown though to even it out. i guess. lol.

If you live in a plain and you are close to a valley you are looking for trouble. it's hard to keep a good man down if you live in Allentown.

Philly and NYC is 90 minutes. is the crime in NY related to Philly too lol?

These are all cities that existed independently of Philly or else we could tie NYC crime to Philly, but two are state capitals, and all have industrial heritage. Look at rust belt cities, and you will likely find more danger than Philly

WHITE DUDE UP ON 10TH AND SUSQUEHANNA FOR TWO YEARS?
I was on cool party drugs though...

:(