They all BECAME shitholes as Plants closed and jobs left.
Dayum...I used to travel to the Lear plant in Benton Harbor. Wasn't the best place but wasn't the worst.
Ohio is a shit hole
My homeboy is from Cincinnati and I swear he has PTSD. I can tell he seen some shit growing up.Was about to say the same thing....EC is a hot fucking mess......
This 100% I been to Compton, south central too. It's hood and you will get got, but it's not trashy like the cities in the mid west and east coast. I'm from North Carolina and every time I go up to DC and Baltimore I say to myself "If we had ghettos like this, it would be a statewide emergency. The governor would send in the National Guard."
I had a few fam that ended up in Milwaukee after they’d been to Minnesota in the 80s and early 90s because the welfare benefits were better. MN cut that off and they didn’t want to come back to GI so they stayed in Milwaukee.
Lol, yeah the border gas stations in East Chicago and Hammond have always been IL plates. Conversely, we’d roll to the South Burbs hard when River Oaks (both outdoor and indoor) and Lincoln Mall were poppin. I had fam in Cal City so I was like a reprieve from GI, that’s until Cal City went to shit. I stayed begging to go to Fuddruckers and Bennigans as a kid.
The South burbs I remember in the 80s were some shit you aspired to as a black kid because it was a true black middle to upper middle class Mecca.
I missed out on the heyday of Calumet City. I spent quite a bit of time in South Holland, Dalton, and Harvey. I stopped buying gas in Harvey because all of the Gas Stations locked up at sundown and you trying to buy shit through bullet proof glass and shit. I would want to top off before getting on 294 coming back home but I took the hint.
The last time I was in Cal City, my wife's family had a birthday party for Aunt So&So at a Country Club there. There were White people playing Night Golf with glow in the dark balls, drunk and jubilant; and they did Karaoke there. That night was Black Karaoke Night. It was fun af. There were always a lot of headturnersthere and I figured that I'd better NEVER go to the South Burbs solo.
Before u go into Cal city and harvey and “dalton” u gatta holla at meI missed out on the heyday of Calumet City. I spent quite a bit of time in South Holland, Dalton, and Harvey. I stopped buying gas in Harvey because all of the Gas Stations locked up at sundown and you trying to buy shit through bullet proof glass and shit. I would want to top off before getting on 294 coming back home but I took the hint.
The last time I was in Cal City, my wife's family had a birthday party for Aunt So&So at a Country Club there. There were White people playing Night Golf with glow in the dark balls, drunk and jubilant; and they did Karaoke there. That night was Black Karaoke Night. It was fun af. There were always a lot of headturners
My wife had family in Dalton and we used to go there for the 4th of July when the kids were young. That was over a decade ago now though.
Sounds like a plan Bruh!
You used to be at dolton works?My wife had family in Dalton and we used to go there for the 4th of July when the kids were young. That was over a decade ago now though.
I love Chicagoland but I don't know that I could adapt to living there with just the damned traffic alone.
I have a Sister-in-Law and her family who live in Bolingbrook. Me and her hubby hang out for a few days at a time...I'll go there for a few days and then they'll pop through Milwaukee for a few days because we all live the closest to one another.
Everybody else is so spread out that we only get together once every three or four years, barring any funeral, etc.
Yeah! Probably from 94 through 09 or 10, like clockwork! Once our kids started gettin' older and moving out, etc. We stopped going because that was the reason we were going...for cousins to be acquainted and have fun and shit.
I don't believe the intent of the thread is to be malicious but it would be a whole different conversation if this shit was about Opi and Methany living in Anytown, USA.
Been through Flint on my way to Saginaw to visit a homie
Been to Gary several times with my ex because that's where she is from and our kid's grandfather lives there.....DOUBLE
Spent one 4th of July in Gary. Got so wasted I woke up the next day with many stories being told. Was told I had to be escorted away from the house we were at cuz cats were eyeballing me for a robbery. Fuck Gary. A lot of stank Mil town hoes come from there
Philly is essentially next door and NYC is a fairly short commute. Buying the properties on the cheap is only half the battle. Rehabbing them is gonna be the real cost.
Rehab is tax deductible. So is the property management.There has to be a catch. Why haven't investors started buying up Camden yet?
Because of crime. Living in the nicest place in the hood makes you a target. "Gentrification" needs to start with crime reduction.
We'd have to take a look at the Long Range Planning for that area and other towns around it. Are there going to be any new developments anywhere near there, etc. within the next decade and shit. A visit to the City Planner's Office would be the first place to start.
