STORM2K

So what is the dark side of your city if you have one.

In Dallas, their dark side is Deep Ellum, home of people with spiked hair, night clubs, and creepy stuff.

Perhaps the darkest side of Phoenix is the human trafficing of smuggled illegals who almost on a daily basis are found hidden away in abandon homes and other facilities. Some people say that the homeless population that exists just north of the Arizona State University is especially foreboding at night. Otherwise, there is an area just south and southwest of downtown Phoenix that is truly one of our more blighted neighborhoods. Finally, Van Buren street between downtown and the airport is known for its seedy prostitution and room-by-the-hour hotels.

Steve - I thought for sure you'd mention the South Side of Chicago. Each time we pass thru there on our way to visit my husband's sister in Barrington, IL (a suburb of Chicago), we're told to never stop there. Make sure we have plenty of gas. Let's just say I almost always look at that poor, rundown area and wish it could be fixed up.

Cincinnati has a dark side - it's called Over The Rhine. Decades ago it was a nice community, but now it's very rundown. In the past 10 years or so, there's been a push to revitilize it and more than a dozen nightclubs and restaurants have popped up on Main Street there. I've heard though cars are broken into on a regular basis, not to mention the tragic cases of shootings in this area too. This is the area that our riots started at a few years ago, and then moved into downtown Cincinnati. If anyone remembers seeing newsreels of cops on horseback then, in full riot gear, this is the area I'm referring to. A sad, sad time in our city's history. Unfortunately not much has changed since our riots.

Mary

Oh, the only dark side of Irving, TX is Tudor Lane, home of runed down apartment complexes, drug-dealers, and managers who embezzle money. Many high schoolers called it "The Projects". I used to live in that area until we saw the behavior of one of the new managers, faulty structures, gang fights, and of course...vandalism.

My city has a dark side, the northeast/north-central side of Omaha. Alot of gangs, crime and other nasty stuff occurs in this area. I would not want to drive in that area at nightfall.

Topeka is ranked #1 in crime for small cities under 200,000 people.

Sikeston's "dark side" is called "Sunset", basically the SW area of the city.

Largely populated by blacks/Latinos, it boasts a thriving, uninterrupted drug trade, gunshots on a thrice-daily basis, and even the DPS won't go in there unless every car they have goes in with them...sometimes, with an assist by Scott County Sheriff's Dept.

They are noted for surrounding a single patrol car with a mob of 50-200, throwing rocks and bottles just because the car is "there"...and Sikeston DPS only assigns one patrolman to a car.

DUH...

Yep I agree Miss Mary on that, the dark side of Cincy is without a shadow of a doubt the OTR area...as for my part of the Tri-State region (for those that don't know what I mean that's SW OH, Northern KY, and SE IN), well this area really doesn't have a dark side...if any area of N KY can be considered that IMO it'd have to be Covington, which is right across from Cincy, especially the central area of that city...

This city of 30,000 in the middle of nowhere has a bad area, but it's not all that bad. I'm not afraid to go through there. There's about 2 murders a year here, and virtually all of the crime is drug related or domestic situations. The long term natives say that things have become real bad, but compared to where I lived before, (Norristown, PA) this is a walk in the woods.

League City doesn't have any dark sides. On a larger scale, Pasadena and Texas City are probably Houston's dark sides, because of the heavy concentration of factories and refineries. On the flip side, you have the cookie cutter suburban sprawly parts on the NW side that disgust me, so I guess you can say that Houston is one big dark side. Except maybe the west side Galleria area.

Nuthin' here in Pinetop but Show Low is another story. They have an area called Show Low Pines, home to meth labs, crack labs, white suprem. militias, heck, ALL local law enforements agencies virtually REFUSE to respond to this area unless they have air support, seriously, the militias out there are, well.......

Dennis