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dena: I have lived in the Humboldt Park area all my 50 years and seen many changes for the better yet the gangs are a big problem still in our community and schools in the area...... Joe Drexler: From a building design standpoint many blocks in Bushwick were attached "row frames" as known by firefighters these row frames differed from attached brownstones in that the space or void between the roof and the...... bfuman: trust me when i tell you kp is not the place you want to call home for any length of time, parole violaters get a one or two night stay over from the don in...... Diane Dole: Hi chris, you are 100% right chris it is what we were brought up beleiving that there is always someone else worse off than you.
It dont matter what you got share it and the...... Anna: Now that a team has won in Philadelphia (Souls) I guess the curse is broken! But I didn't see on the news that the El was set on fire or cars and buses were...... Tyra: I'm currently a senior [class of 09] and I've enjoyed my years in ACORN. F.Y. I: if you're going to make comments about the school then at least make them memorable ones or use proper...... upfromflames: Lou: It depends on what part of Bushwick you are talking about, as the process of demographic change proceeded differently in different part of the neighborhood. In ther southern side of Bushwick--south of Myrtle--the process...... chae sone: Mad cowed assemblymen.
WHO REPRESENTS KOREA?
The Korean people want to be free from the mad cow riots. It reminds Rousseau’s statement. “Man is born free, yet everywhere he is chains.” In this social condition, he proposed...... Captain Obvious: What really grates about Quebec's degenerate infrastructure, is that they have not only incredibly high taxes, but they *also* have incredibly high subsidies from all the more productive provinces, BOTH.
To have billions poured into a...... Director 9209: Nice pics, but you should keep off the High Line (Notice that it's two words or FO will get you!) because it is a bonafide construction site complete with all the OSHA phobic hazards, and...... hmmm: You are sooooo far off on the idea that Hutchinson is the "most" drug infested area... I will quote Andie with the statement that Reno County is ranked in the top spot for the...... Ruth: So many bitter people. I grew up in Hutch and would not take the experience for anything in the world. I am sure it has gotten much worse in every town across the nation...... Chris Crozier: Hi Pat if you are the same pat brannan im thinking of i went to school (irlam high school)with your brother mark in the seventies and you were indirectly
responsible for me meeting my first wife...... 1life2live: I from brooklyn my whole life the truth is shit can happen if your in the wrong place at the wrong time im lucky i have many friends stabbed or killed for stupidity but as...... CS: Believe me there are a lot worse places to live than Hutchinson. To all of you who don't like Hutchinson, I sincerely hope that you are happy where you are living. Maybe Hutchinson...... Mike L.: It was indeed a heartless act of desecration, and my neighborhood is the worse-off for it.... MrBrenzo: Hutchinson Kansas is a boring place, if you are a boring person. I lived in Hutch until I was 15 and remember it fondly. the state fair only happens once a year, but it was...... jason: i didn't live in kensington "officially" but i spent somewhere around 14-15 years there. sorry to say i was one of the people 'involved' in the crime and drugs that tore that part of the...... Mitch: The reason we have giant pot holes and roads in such terrible shape has to do with the Quebec government's cutting corners. They use lower quality asphalt and put down only a very thin layer...... Laura: Interesting...It'd be much better to leave the whole graf and not just the outlines..I think it now looks messy and worse than just brown walls.... RAY ALAN: I have lived in jacksonville fla. all my life 51yrs. to be exact.First I cant belive Jacksonville fla. is being called a small town because there est.800,000 people reside here and it is...... EvilGentleman: Let hear it for slinking! I am reminded of [[7658:this post]] by jack. Nice one.
Joey, the problem with the height signs is, they are all metric here. I have no clue how many centimeters tall...... Eric from Port Richmond: A Richmond boy with a few comments.
Its NOT just Kensignton that took a turn for the worst in the area.
I grew up in the late 70s and 80s in Port Richmond. The neighbors would sit...... Jimmy Legs: i say that part of Melrose is pretty safe nowadays. to me the litmus test is to go there on a weekend night and see how comfortable you feel.
and to Jim QV: th worst...... dirana1: You have got to be kidding me. Does anyone out there know the history of the place? It was British, you at least have that much right. However, it was originally and...... Linda: I live in Kensington I have been here all my life and now i want OUT.Its worse then ever and i hate it that i had to brig up my children in this part of...... Peter: tom: i think its ludicrous to simply look at the "thousands of lives lost that day" without trying to dig deeper into the why and how of it. i think it disrespects both those who...... Tex: You are absolutely right, we should be thankful for what we have and the great country that we live in. We are very blessed and fortunate to live in a country where we have...... Norma Bannon (nee Bolton): Rob - see I wasn't losing my mind, Maddens did exist, though I don't remember it from WWII years lol...
In the days of getting up to mischief, if we got a clip round the ear,...... Peter: hahahaha. i dont know which is worse... that there are so many flies... or that theyre all dead!... {{A}}: Everyone is going to have there own personal opinion about the schooL regardl3ss. But for the ones who attend ACORN...they cant say that this school is all around bad. Just because this school may not...... John Boom: Portland, OR
U start to look more and more or your surroundings on the MAX
U see a bum for every regular person
U see the service at VooDoo Doughnut get worse everyyear, but you still go
U see...... the in: wow this is a hot issue with many different sides to it. First I'm white and poor and a hipster. My first choice was to live in Williamburg. But the prices there have gone up...... Tex Re: Hunter: Hunter, I'm tired of you giving out false statements. As I said before, I did not come up with the crime statistics, they came from the F.B.I. You can review them at this...... noname: I was driving to WORK this morning and saw something that truly pissed me off. I left my house to see 1 million plus dollar crane picking up Tree limbs! Along with this crane were...... ManchurianC.: 2 jack
what d'ya mean prince andre & natasha :)
haven't heard of these. and-- africa IS NOT Russia.
take care.
"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than...... Tex Re: Hunter: My crime statistics come from the F.B.I., and I would say that they probably have well qualified statisticians who know how to report said facts fairly with the proper comparisons, so that 'apples' are not...... James: Typical BS about Flint. It may not be the greatest but people make it seem worse than it is.
The photo above is in one of the "Bad" areas of the city. ...... EvilGentleman: What cute little snowdrifts. I like the pictures, but I really get the impression that most Torontonians have no clue what a **real** Canadian winter is like. But I suppose you get lake effect storms...... Ken: What are you people talking about? Kensington (at least parts of it) are getting better not worse, there are many great things going on here and I am offended by some of the comments that...... Cyril Bagshaw:
Hi Alan,
Pretty well spot on with the old row of shops in Fiddlers lane, they started with a double being Smallshaw,s grocery which provided the meager rations throughout the war and managed more or...... Graham Bate: Hi Andy,
This thread is a real blast from the past! so many names I recall, Brian Bagshaw, Roy Bamber, Steve Weir and all the history that goes with the town. I come from Irlam myself...... johnny quilez: i grew up in the bushwick section of bklyn and have many fond memories and many bad ones as well.but i don't have one regret growing up there,it made me wiser.i lived on the corner...... Alfred: "Old bastards" - I'm 26. Maybe young people in this city should learn to take enjoyment from simple things like taking a stroll at Dillon Nature Center or listening to non-commericial, uninterupted classical music on...... Alfred: I live in Hutchinson, and I knew this article was pure propaganda right when I saw the photos. The first photo is of an entrance gate to the State Fairgrounds, which the author describes as...... Proletariat: It's my duty to care about others. You're right, I've never lived in kensington, however I've lived in worse places. I've lived in the poorest country in South America, where more than 50 % of...... Freda Anderson: Hey, I live there! It can be rough sometimes but seeing all the stuff that goes down just makes me want to work that much harder to get to collage and to do well... Although...... George: It is disgusting! people live worse than animals in New York!... Michelle: it's not as bad as it seems. there are FARRR worse towns to live in. and it seems that the pictures are only taken from a certain part of town. i'm sure that there are...... Rachel: I CAN NOT stress enough how much that you should avoid this creepy crawly many legged creature motel. DO NOT GO. It has horrible and has bugs. Not to mention the horrible...... EvilGentleman: Elicar, I am glad you had a good experience. I know my mother in Ottawa has not been as fortunate as you, but maybe she is an unfortunate exception.
She has found OHIP coverage to so...... pissedoff: kensington is still a shitty area, i live and work there, the kids especially are the worse. large groups of kids picking on the stores in kensington like throwing bricks through the window almost hitting...... Hutch Ho: Hutch isn't all that bad. No worse than any other city. It has it's problems,but what town or city doesn't. The downtown renovation is nice,Ave.A park is nice,the antique district is totally cool, Smith's market...... McArthur: Peter-- Right on!!
I Agree-- see, you're another person who's pointing out flaws and then digressing into a rant. What are YOU doing to change the "problem"? Complaining online? I was with you for your...... I agree: Mcarthur, that is the problem. People would rather brag about wastes of money like the football team or the SALT museum which has to be bailed out by the tax payers to stay open!
Also,...... Candle: Blow is to NYC what Beer is to everywhere else.
Its everywhere. Friends of friends, guys who know guys, everyone has a dealer and in recent years its got WAY Worse.
Its more acceptable now to do...... Gary: Much of what I read here reminds of comments about what gentlemen the German officers were in restaurants after they had invaded France! Listen here: The Hells Angels, each and every...... nuclearrabbit33: By the way, the Robert Taylor homes along south State St. have always been worse. There are the projects you can see from the Dan Ryan Expressway. I'd rather be lost in Cabrini any day.... Sweaty: If you don't like them, don't use them. Whatever you think is offensive is occuring in your head since you can't actually see anything. It makes me crazy when people are upset and want someone...... Franny Wentzel: Not even close! The buildings of the {New York Plaza} are by far the most ass-raping ugliest buildings in The City. Even worse is that they're the first buildings one sees coming up the {Hudson...... anon (p179n5.ruraltel.net): I live in Norton, and I have to say that these pictures are seriously not typical of the town. They are of alleys, and how many people are hanging out in alleys? Well, if they...... Adriana: Thats scary to see and to think that it might get worse ! thats terrible. The trees that are being planted aren't working they are falling over or just getting covered with sand. i hope...... corsakti: just to clear something up again; i was tryin to badmouth humboldt park and the puerto ricans who live there. As I grew up, we lived in a rented house there for years and were...... HushUp: Ok apparently not. So here we go (I guess because of my first post I used copy and paste so it didn't go through) Sooooo, I will type it all out, just because I...... corsakti: just to clear something up, for anyone who misunderstood - i wasn't tryin to badmouth humboldt park in general, we lived in a rented house there for years and were fine with it. our...... What Amanda ?: That post is a complete explanation of a big majority of the residents of Hutch. You bring up Hutch has "lots of other fun things" FUN DOES NOT PAY BILLS!!!!!!! I have...... saltbake: I´m afraid to say that this town is the worst place I´ve ever lived. I grew up in a really small town in South Dakota, and I can say that Hutchinson does not even have...... Pep: you are completely right, Eric. I even think about trade some for my own city. I assure, it's much worse the smell and walk over one hundred "urinary discharges" spreading over the street.... one more comment: not that I am sticking up for Hutch because i do know that it has a lot of "respected citizens" that are running most of the government here, and almost all of the boards of...... todd from kansas: It looks to me there are some extreme generalizations in the photos. Almost trying to make these towns look much worse than they really are. I grew up in Kansas City. Have driven all through...... procyon: General consensus seems to be a combination of luck (sometimes it's just unlocked) and being polite/respectful to the people who work there (i.e. if you see people working inside, try asking nicely if you can...... Kristen from Hutchinson: "I always love it when someone makes remarks about grammer/spelling. This is a cheap comeback or stab. But maybe you don't have enough common since to think that it may have been a typo.. Not...... joe: what! these pictures look worse then my... oh nvm... Dev: I am glad to see there is at least a dialogue about the pressure women are under to look a certain (very limited) way- namely thin, young, blond, and firm. It is worse now than...... CE: Ah, the ETS residences, there always seem to be weird parties in that building. I was invited to the annual beach party in the court yard by some people at the bizarre student dep....... Frustrated: I don't mean to sound uptight and can understand that some country's embrace this practice, but we have no privacy in the world anymore. Going to the restroom is a very personal thing and I...... Anthony: The overgrown condition is not the only problem. Many of the crypts have been broken into. I went for a walk in the cemetery about 3 years back and I found a crypt with the...... Me: Well, I for one moved back here after being gone for 23 years in a place that was so dang expensive(California) rent 1,400 a month. Median home prices 600,000 and that would get you...... Cay: Dee I remember them real pretzels. They were unlike anything I've tasted. A couple of years ago I was in midtown for a month with a group of coworkers. I tried explaining the pretzels to...... returned_farmboy: I was going to go to all the trouble to refute some claims about Hutchinson made in this post, but then I cam to the realization that: 1) If the author was doing a serious...... wanderer: My parents grew up on Waterloo St, and my grandparents ran the corner store at Somerset (catty-corner from what was the Boys Club) until a bad robbery in the early 80's. Some of the...... Chiamattt: I'd try it. Can't be worse than salty grasshoppers. those were yucktastic!... Jamie: Jesus. I guess it's no worse than {black pudding} but still, i'm not so sure i'd enjoy eating a can of disease.... Big Bank Hank: Everytime I see paintings of the hungerstrikers it makes me want to throw up! These men were terrorists/criminals they thought nothing of killing people, blowing up buildings/people, robbing banks, extorting money of people, and generally...... anon (cache-ntc-ab09.proxy.aol.com): trust me hells angels are worse than people think. they are good at pr public realitions. they put on a good show but the public dont know the truth.its the downward spiral of stupidity...... AD: I ate there once with a friend from out-of-town, man the food was horrible. I love real Tex-Mex but truly this place was worse than Taco Bell... My friend (who is white) thought...... Eric: CCP project was absolutely the worst. I had many friends (good people) who lived there. I only hope they made it out OK. I graduated from Kennedy back in 1983 and went on to earn...... john urbanski: I remember the fire very well. Was in front of my house about a mile or so away and seeing a great deal of smoke coming from that direction. Grabbed my camera and headed for...... Heartbreaker: I'm glad i don't live on the east coast not to say the west coast is any better but, The housing issue here in california is slowly getting better. The cost of living is high...... kathy archbold: Hmm, that almost looks like a trabant - doesn't it?
I know what you mean Jamie, but there are far worse places to live - probably just none more expensive... ... anon (static-host-66-18-45-122.epbinternet.com): Another perspective. I'm 50 years old. Born in St. Anthony's, lived on Fairfield and Richmond Streets, attended Moos School. Gangs are nothing new. Puerto Ricans began moving into the neighborhood in...... Majin_Boo: I just got home around 2:15am and there was a raccoon just sitting on the driveway. My girlfriend thought it was a huge cat and was about to get out the car, but I quickly...... Mushi: There are mean people everywhere in this city, whether it's Bushwick, Sunnyside, Park Slope, the Upper Eastside, Soho...it doesn't matter.
People with attitudes like some mentioned above really upset me. Yeah, I'd love to live...... Manoj: So here we go... what was supposed to be a topic about cheap sex and stuff has turned into a debate on racism... and further worse - apartheid!
Well, having lived for 2 years now in...... Susannah: (in response to Lisa's comment) I think there is a difference between "nudity" and masturbating "at someone". I'm grateful for what Nguyen did - I think it took a lot of guts. I believe that...... shoot it straight: Some of these post make me smile and some are just annoying. The neighborhood does have potential, which one doesn't? Change starts with the people who are there and where they see themselves in the...... mike: COPS ARE WORSE THAN ANY CRIMINAL ON THE STREET.. THEY REMIND ME OF A PIT BULL WHO TASTE'S BLOOD THEN THEY ALL ATTACK WITH NO REGAURD TO HUMAN DIGNITY. FUCK THE COPS, THY LIE, CHEAT,...... iman: robert: yeah man i go to lafayette hs. by the way, if c.i. is bad already, you're right, it doesn't matter if it gets worse. just as long as it doesn't spread to some people....... Joan: I looked at the pictures and yes, those places do exist. Of course two of the four were taken of alleys. How many beautiful alleys do most towns have? I could go to the...... dougieESQ: I think with all the changes coming to coney island in the next few years people will say its getting better but I think it will actually be worse. Luxury lofts and condos do not......
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