What is the closest thing to a favela in the US? Americans, pls post pictures of your shitholes. I want to compare them to ours.
>>57505267
theyre usually individual houses that are just really down in the dumps and shitty, all in one neighborhood.
they arent piled on top of each other or concentrated in apartments
isn't detroit a shithole but without hills and mountains?
>>57505352
detroit isnt even that bad its just in disarray
the crime rate is still lower then your typical latin american city.
>>57505401
It is actually only better than the worst Latin American cities
this is the poorest area in my city and where all the niggers live (and subsequently 90% of the crime)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/North+Omaha,+Omaha,+NE/@41.3110563,-95.9982088,12z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x8793918e8893dc07:0x4228797eb90923f0
>>57505431
its still a better place to live
>>57505352
Basically, but there's a lot of cool abandoned buildings you can urban ex in, and the police are so apathetic that you usually won't get caught.
Our poorly-off cities are largely abandoned, not jam-packed with people. Detroit isn't violent so much as it is depressingly empty.
Such is the way of the Rustbelt.
>>57505267
Sorry, we don't have anything as horribly third world as favelas. The worst we have are ghetto neighborhoods, but it isn't the living conditions that makes them shitholes, it's the poverty and crime rates.
Any project housing building in Los Angeles or Chicago. These two cities are the main producers of gang culture almost every gang the United States can trace their origin to these two cities.
>>57505495
Chitown is fine
>>57505471
If you like crackers, yes
>>57505267
Is she pregnant
The Pine Ridge res is about as bad as it gets in the US
>>57505521
I said PJ building not chicago as a whole
>>57505495
the projects are a thing of the past really. The worst were torn down and the remaining ones rehabbed with stricter policing and building management. See >>57505424 for what an american ghetto looks like.
>>57505267
West Baltimore
South Chicago/Gary Indiana
Southwest Houston
West Philadelphia
In the South, shotgun houses are a pretty good sign you're in a bad neighborhood and will be shot if you stand around too long.
>>57505574
I actually went there desu. We went to protest in whiteclay and then we helped build some houses on the reservation. It was unimaginable poverty, I had never seen anything like it. It's like leaving your backyard and somehow entering a genuinely, no hyperbole, third world country. Also, the ratty mangy dogs everywhere was gross.
>>57505667
>protest
What for?
>>57505267
ANYWHERE THERE IS A MAJORITY OF BLACK PEOPLE. NATIVE AMERICANS TOO
ALSO WEST VIRGINIA, APPALACHIA.
>>57505473
Michigan in itself is just a sad place honestly. I'm not sure why homeless people don't just move there, live in abandoned homes, and turn their yards into gardens to feed themselves.
In fact that would be a cheap government project that we should be funding.
>>57505732
>>57505473
what are those abandoned properties actually worth?
>>57505591
I lived in an American ghetto South centra Los Angeles and it didnt look all snowy and fun for kids like your pic
>>57505679
Whiteclay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2BwAjKRX3I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiteclay,_Nebraska
It's a big issue in Nebraska. It's a dry reservation on the South Dakota side, but some guys through up a couple of shacks on the Nebraska side and started selling beer. No one really lives in the "town" (when I went back in 2011, only 2 people lived there full time) and yet the town sells 4-6 million cans of beer per year. All to the natives.
The protests are generally about pressure on the Nebraska government. The government enables sketchy behavior white simultaneously complaining about colorado pot. http://www.hightimes.com/read/nebraska-complains-about-colorado-weed-while-enabling-south-dakota-alcoholism
san bernardino
>>57505768
you can buy some for anywhere from $50 to $3000
>>57505814
>snow in a fucking desert.
Gee, I fucking wonder why.
Also, what about that pic looks fun for kids other than someone hung a tire swing?
>>57505401
Detroit is the 28th highest homicide rate of the whole world
I'm sorry but it's far from the typical latin american city, even for Brazilian standards
>>57505768
lot value is in the low ten thousands. Houses are usually out of code and need to be torn down or have more money than it's worth to rehab them.
>>57505966
LA is not a desert you idiot. Look at your pic the houses have no fencing,no bars on windows, hard to be out in the street corner hanging out in the snow etc. Dont get me wrong Chi gangsters bang in the snow but your pic probably isnt chitown
>>57506147
That's in my neighborhood, I'm 45 min north of Chicago
And we do have a lot of children here, by the way which should explain the stuff
It's not that bad here
>>57505732
there's more to Michigan than Detroit and Flint you doof.
>>57506408
Where do you live? Looks like Zion
t. waukegan
>>57506147
>Semi-arid scrubland
I am so sorry for this misclassification.
Have you been anywhere but mexico and socal? You stand on corners in the snow by putting a fucking coat and hat on. Trust me, it's not hard.
Fencing and bars on windows aren't a big deal here. Don't know why you think that's the be all, end all of fucking ghettos.
>>57506498
I live in LA.
When I was a kid, I had to live in a couple bad neighborhoods.
If the house you live in comes with bars on the windows and screen doors, it isn't because it makes the house look good.
It's because burglary is a thing in that area.
>>57506482
Close
Are you a Latino
>>57506705
Are you one of them porch monkeys
>>57506793
No I am black
>>57506024
It's black-on-black crime
>>57506575
I grew up as a white kid in puerto rican neighborhood of chicago. Most of the houses have a first floor above ground level. The basement windows will have bars, but tweakers aren't going to get a ladder to go through a higher window when they can just break open the door.
there are loads of shitty old coal towns in appalachia that look like absolute hell. nothing like a favela though.
>>57506498
Visited the bay area and was blown away by the scenery, for all the bad rap Oakland has it look nice as hell, even if I did see a hooker at 11 am on a monday hooking. Maybe LA is the exception to USA ghettos because the gangs a way more hardcore than anywhere else but honestly LA is more dangerous than the city I live in now here in Mexico
>>57506881
That's what I just said
When did you graduate?
>>57506915
>>57505267
Poor African American neighborhoods, in inner cities, are the closest equivalent.
Due to education's high cost, poverty is pretty cyclical. To get into a university you'll need higher-than-average grades, which are difficult to achieve if you have to work throughout high school, have uncaring or absent parents, and need to take care of relatives.
>>57506896
Hence why he said screen doors that are all metal, mine in LA had bullet holes from a drive by
>>57506945
>>57506915
Fuck off, there's nothing wrong with them.
>>57506945
>>57506894
My city is the same thing.
My guess is that most of the violent cities in Brazil have mostly black on black crime
>>57506982
there's nothing wrong with towns where the entire population lives below the poverty line?
>>57505352
Detroit isn't as bad as Rio. It's not exceptionally crime-ridden, just in disarray due to huge chunks being uninhabited.
When the jobs left, so did the people who could afford to live elsewhere.
I will visit Rio with my family this summer, can you recommend some safe favela tour for white people? thx
>>57506923
I grew up in Oakland, it's a nice place even though it obviously has a huge crime/poverty problem. I'd much rather live there again than in some shithole meth city in central California like Fresno or Stockton
>>57507067
>safe favela tour for white people
top kek
>>57505352
better than most Latin American cities
the only city in Latin America with a lower murder rate than Detroit and St. Louis is Sao Paolo
Housing projects.
They pack nig-nogs by the thousands in these towers.
>>57507067
Would you tour compton? No? Why the fuck a favela then
>>57505465
omaha is literally just an excuse to have a cool zoo
your city is worthless
New Orleans has some shitty slums
>>57505732
That's a good idea, but capitalism won't let it happen
All of those abandoned houses are still private property. Any that fall into the jurisdiction of the city get demolished, but most are owned by Detroit's disappeared black middle class. People in Chicago or New York keep the deed to their grandmother's old house in case somebody ever wants to buy it.
Many of those houses are for sale for literally nothing (I'm talking less than $10,000), but most property owners are unwilling to sell due to hopes that the property values will appreciate
>>57507171
Aint this Auschwitz?
>>57506459
Like ice storms?
>>57507171
Looks like the comfy projects in The Wire
Would live in
>>57505768
Less than nothing. They are unfit for human habitation and the taxes on them bear little relation to their market value. Corrupt and/or incompetent local government stands in the way of any effective redevelopment.
>>57505267
this looks amazing desu
>>57505267
Skid Row in LA, a lot of people just live in tents or sleep on the sidewalk here
So I did a project about 2 years ago in my geography on urban decay in America. I'll share some of the pictures from my presentation.
The most typical areas in the US which tend to be shitholes are in the Rust Belt in dead manufacturing centers (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania). Then you have some shitty places in the Deep South and some shit places out West in California.
Obviously I'm missing some places, but it's more of a picture of the shittiest places here.
First up is Camden, New Jersey. It and Philly tend to look pretty shitty.
>>57507342
Speaking of Philadelphia, here's a part of it.
>>57507322
>>57507366
Also yeah, Skid Row is a complete piece of shit. In downtown LA, people literally walk and sleep on the street.
>>57507394
Obviously Detroit deserves a mention.
>>57506986
>appalachia
this looks so comfy
>>57506934
2010
>>57507366
>>57507342
Ehh just don't wander into Chester or West Philly. Lots of Philly is pretty nice
>>57507422
Agreed I'd love to live there. It always makes me think of silent hill.
>>57507419
Harlem in Upper Manhattan
>>57507457
Obviously, yeah. I thought it went without saying, but I'll say it anyway now. None of these pictures represent their city as a whole, they're just the shittiest parts.
Here's Birmingham in Alabama.
>>57507422
Oh don't get me wrong, the East Coast mountain/hilly areas are absolutely gorgeous. It's just that there's an assload of poverty in certain regions and you need to be able to get along with the hill folk.
>>57507342
>Rust Belt
It never really hit me how bad off some of Indiana and Ohio are until I started going to College here in Indiana. I go to Ball State in Muncie, and the town would basically cease to exist if the University left. Many neighboring towns are bordering on destitute or just plain abandoned, and even Indy looks/feels pretty damn depressing (for some reason more often than not its cloudy/overcast when I'm there).
>>57507465
This shit is from the 70s though im pretty sure.
>>57507465
this is neat as fuck keep going m8
>>57507462
check out Maine where Silent Hill took place lad
See the red zones
but are those places for junkies and vagabonds? because if they are, you can't relate them to favelas, since favelas are mostly places to actually live with your family
>>57507498
>>57507507
Yeah, here's a little area in Gary, Indiana.
>>57507498
It's not a bad building really... maybe it just needs a little love
>>57507457
a lot of west philly south of market street isn't so bad. north is worse.
>>57507580
This is apparently on Myrtle Avenue and London Square in Brooklyn, New York. For what it's worth, I guess the graffiti looks cool?
>>57507580
The whole area from Gary to the South Side of Chicago depresses the hell out of me. It just feels like people stopped giving a shit about the area, but people still live there. I sometimes have to take a bus from Indy to Chicago and it goes right through those areas, and its just miles of
>Industrial Parks
>Abandoned buildings
>Old/Shady looking neighborhoods
>Crumbling infrastructure
>Junkyards
I know some good people who used to live there, but I'm still struck by how shitty that area is and then you drive 20-30 minutes north and you're in downtown Chicago.
>>57507572
families dont live in areas like
>>57507498
>>57507465
>>57507366
but they do in pic related which is just about as bad as you are going to get as far as family living goes in America so they cant really be compared to some of the really bad latin american slums but they are still very dangerous and absolutely miserable to live in
>>57507394
Yeah I've walked by there. I swallowed a redpill when I realized it was 95% black
>>57507656
this looks less like a slum and more like a hipster hangout
>>57507711
Thank aggressive neoliberalism.
>>57507741
Ah, yeah. Baltimore is straight fucked, drove through there on a trip up north and it was easily the shittiest place aside from Richmond.
But yeah, it's really not a fair comparison to Latin American favelas.
Here's Cleveland
>>57505401
>the crime rate is still lower then your typical latin american city.
good meme
>>57505471
according to some ameridumb? sure im gonna take your word on it
So aside from all the modern shit, here's a little blast from the past for fellow Americans or something foreign people may not have known.
The worst looking place I've ever seen in the US through its history was probably the South Bronx in the 1970s and 80s. Apparently, NYC was on a strict budget and the city chief just said "fuck it" and cut off funding for fire services to the South Bronx.
Eventually, 50% of the South Bronx straight up just burned down. The whole fucking place was just razed by fires every night.
Overhead shot of the area.
>>57507767
How so? Not doubting you but curious.
>>57507741
Reminds me of how some families live in Muncie. Granted they're not jammed together in an urban setting but a similar poverty feel to it.
>Me and my buddy in college play a lot of ingress (geolocation app game)
>Occasionally we ride along with this one woman who knows my buddy and also plays ingress
>Her minivan is absolutely filthy, but being in college and having been in other people's cars its nothing really new
>That changes when she occasionally brings her kids along when we do ingress stuff or when she straight up brings them along when we're drinking/partying at a friends place
>Feel rather uncomfortable with all of us swearing and drinking with little kids (5-6 years old) present
>Her house has multiple tenants besides her kids and is absolutely filthy, I'm pretty damn sure at least one of the tenants was a crack addict (don't ask me how I know)
>Apparently she was a student at the university until she got knocked up and the dad just left, leaving her to raise the kids
And that's how I learned about how a lot of other Americans have to deal with raising a family. Apparently she's trying to get back in the uni with some financial aid but it's not looking too good.
>>57507900
>>57507869
There are nice places in Detroit, as odd as it would seem.
>>57506894
Same here, gangs kills each other everyday but it's rare to see a hard working man getting killed for no reason.
>>57507930
>>57507968
Last one of the South Bronx. The area apparently looks much nicer today and they really cleaned it up, but it's truly a shame it ever got as bad as it did.
>>57507869
That pic is from india
>>57508000
literally looks like a war zone
>>57507097
>>57506881
st paolo? lol. how many cities do you think there are in latin america?
detroit, maybe you could compare that shit to africa. whats worse, im getting some weird uppity vibes here, coming from what is the lowest of usa, which makes it funnier
>>57508127
Yeah m8, it's pretty fucked up. Had a friend who lived in the South Bronx back from 78 to 85, he said it smelled like smoke every day, crime everywhere, constant fire. I can't even imagine.
This is the poorest, worst community in my county.
>>57508298
ngl, it's pretty bad. Tupac grew up here.
>>57508317
I'm completely serious about this, too. Highest crime rates and poverty in the county.
It's hilarious, because it's right next to one of the richest towns in the entire country.
>>57505424
looks nice desu. would move
>>57505267
America is one big favela, didn't you see the Korean documentary sponsored by Kim jong un? we drink coffee made from snow then work 13 hours a day so we can buy guns to kill each other with
So, it seems like in Lat, poor neighboorhoods are mostly densely populated, badly constructed and designed, clusters of people, with shitloads of families living there.
While, in the US, the poor neighboorhoods are well constructed and somewhat planned hoods that become depopulated and therefor, decay with time.
While in Lat, the bad neighboorhoods are violent because they are full with low-income people that end up resorting to crime, in US their slums are violent because they are abandoned, empty places that no one cares to improve or regulate and therefor become a place of operation for crimminals...
Fascinating...
>>57506923
I visit bay area regularly and live in LA
Bay area has a million times more crime, but it does look nicer.
The only huge problems in LA are east and south central, fucking cholos ruin everything. Some areas look like shit too but don't have much crime.
>>57508912
Also depends on the part of the Bay, a lot of the East Bay is shit, but a lot of the peninsula and Marin are really nice.
>>57505732
Because it gets cold as fuck in Michigan. You'd freeze your ass off living in an abandoned home. Also, homeless people don't have the money to move cross country.
>>57506482
>>57506408
Eww def looks like zion. Sup waukegan
t. Northbrook
The Tenderloin in SF was pretty bad. These people shit in the streets and don't give a fuck about shooting up heroin or smoking crack in public.
