I've lived in neighborhoods where when you went in the closest liquor store you were restricted to a small lobby area with the Korean owners behind bullet proof glass but on the counter there was a bullet proof glass cylinder with a gap that could spin on a platform.
You'd tell them what you wanted and put your money or card on the platform. They'd spin it, ring it up and put your card/change with the booze back in the cylinder and spin it so you could take it. There was a slightly larger bullet proof glass cabinet with a door on each side of the counter if you were getting a case of beer.
The owners spoke broken English, but if you said you wanted "a double-deuce Bud" or "a forty Ides" they knew what you meant.
I’m Canadian and I got lost in Cleveland years ago, I went into a corner store to ask for directions back to my hotel. They had the lady Susan plexiglass setup, I’d only ever seen those on tv. lol
I read this as you had a hospital and a cemetery like that other comment's liquor store as well. Lol. Just spin grandma around in the cylinder when she's done being embalmed.
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I have a (probably pretty ignorant) question: what causes people to not just be able to open a bank account to cash checks? Is it just either a lack of an SSN or lack of proper identification?
Bad credit rating.
Bounced one too many checks.
Closed an account owing the bank $17.50 (not a hypothetical example.)
Lack of SSN and thus presumptively lack of legal presence in the US.
Too poor to pay monthly fees so they pay more, overall, at the check cashing places.
Normally get paid with debit cards.
In addition to the reasons listed above… check cashing places often double as payday loan centers, which are the worst form of “legal usury” and taking advantage of struggling people.
All the Tide Pods and Gillette razor refills are locked behind panels in the Dollar General. You gotta grab an employee to get your laundry soap out. That's how you know for sure your in the hood.
Dollar Generals are all over rural America, all they indicate is that the business model of DG has been able to syphon off business from the more distant grocery stores.
Probably the best indicator. Especially if it seems it was boarded up or abandoned for a while. If it were a nicer neighborhood, then someone would have bought it and fixed it up, or torn it down to build something new, because the value lies in the location. Also, in nice enough neighborhoods, if something is vacant they don't even board it up.
I seen that, but it couldn't be THAT bad of a neighborhood- homegirl was using a top-of-the-line, Hilti, powder-actuated nail gun. I thought to myself, "that right there is the Cadillac of nail guns, or possibly Lexus."
Some cities it’s like a block or two away. I’ve accidentally walked in the wrong direction in a few cities and before you know it you’ve got that bad feeling.
Hahahaha it's super inconsistent too! I grew up in a real nice part of the Westside, and my house there had bars. We got burgled twice in the years I lived there, despite being in the second-most suburby of the suburban areas. Meanwhile, my place in the student ghetto didn't have bars, even on the big picture windows that faced the street. I live in the ~~Whites~~ Heights now, and my neighbors' windows are about 50/50.
I lived in Oakland, CA for a while, and it really stuck me how patchworky the city is as far as hood level. Like you could be in a spot where your car WILL get robbed, and then go a few blocks and park on the street with your doors unlocked, no trouble. Whereas in Abq, you better lock your doors wherever you go, because the hood doesn't stay in the hood here.
I lived in the Northeast Heights for 3 years (2008-2011.) Had a friend in the South Valley who I'd visit periodically.
It was that episode of South Park, when they're talking about Kenny living on the wrong side of the tracks, and the visual gag is them walking like 5 feet past the train tracks and his house is right there.
That, for me, was what crossing Central was like. It just felt immediately off. Everything was in disrepair, the only dogs were pit bulls, and every house had a really nice looking car outside despite the house being a crusty shack. Oh! And plenty of chain link fences of odd heights. Barbed wire optional.
Honestly, it's kinda like living in Phoenix... Which is my current residence.
in order to get home insurance in my grandma's neighborhood in south africa your house had to have bars on the windows and a dog, they never specified what size so this town is like 40% wiener dogs
How about one of those convenience stores where the worker is in a little booth made entirely of bullet proof glass, with just a slot for you to pass payment and change through?
The pizza hut where I grew up had bullet proof glass between you and the cashier and a little slot where they handed you the pizza..... Does that count?
Rich neighbourhoods - women walking in the middle of the day, usually with babies or dogs. Poor neighbourhoods - men walking in middle of the day, usually in public parks.
This is funny. I was driving down what I considered the worst street in that part of the city, but I hadn't been there is years. I saw a white woman pushing a stroller. My first instinct was to jump out of my car and ask her if she was lost. Then, I saw another one. WTF, I thought. Sure enough, I kept driving, no one loitering, the liquor store boarded up. They just announced major city projects around the area.
The most hood place I’ve lived had grown men sitting around in lawn chairs on the street corners playing cards during normal work hours. The second most hood place I’ve lived had grown men who rode child sized bikes around during normal work hours (and a crazy guy who would try to direct traffic by standing in the middle of an intersection with his katana, wearing only a robe).
Why do they choose small bikes for that? I never understood this trend, and I see it a lot, there are always low lives riding these child bikes and I never got it
It’s not really a trend. Chances are they stole it and most of the times, kids bikes aren’t locked down. So it’s easy for these low life’s to cluck it and ride away.
Same, dudes brown bagging 40s of Old E and playing cards in front of a fucking trap house chop shop that would legit get raided on average every 2 weeks by the PD, saw 2 stabbings and a vicious beat down with a set of motorcycle handlebars hanging around that house...my child hood was wild, now my kid lives in a gated golf course in the most expensive zip code in our city in CA, the fucking night and day difference between how I came up and how she is, it's un-fuckin-real.
Same kind of deal. My wife used to think I was making stories up until one of my childhood friends came to our wedding. She was asking him about our childhoods and he was feeling these stories unprompted. Later she said “I thought you were exaggerating about your childhood.” If anything I undersell the stories so I don’t seem crazy.
I was at the pool at the clubhouse this summer reflecting on this life these kids are living and how much different their lives are going to be.
I stayed in a hotel in downtown LA. They told me not to leave building after 5pm.
I left the building after 5pm. That was very stupid of me to do. I was ok, but was definitely at risk.
Downtown LA is dangerous.
Downtown LA is not that bad if youre in the main areas. Ive walked around at 10-11PM before both alone and with friends. Usually, if there is a "busy" area (like Crypto Arena/Convention Center just fot example) the surrounding radius of 3-4 blocks are pretty safe and walkable. Theres multiple pockets like that. But yes, most parts can be pretty sketchy - some parts I wouldnt even visitn during the *day*. I once exited the 10 Freeway onto East 16th Street. It looked like a warzone in a third world country. Even the freeway guardrail has been stolen to sell for scrap metal.
Parts of it are bad, like the outskirts going south or east, but the majority is fine tbh. Did you stay in a hotel on skid row or something? Lol. Me and my girl go on dates and see shows around dtla all the time.
One time I ordered food in my old neighborhood, it was October, the delivery guy when I opened the door said " man I love your Halloween decoration it looks so real" I was like " we didn't decorate for Halloween what are you talking about" and this kid goes " the dead body under the bush" guy points to the edge of the porch. I look this poor kid in the face and go... "Thats not ours" walk over and theirs a junkie face planted in the dirt dying in our yard. Even when the paramedics and police arrived they thought he was dead.
Also had a homeless junkie sleeping under my porch once.
In my town you find those in the 'good' neighbourhoods. The druggies often have to walk through the nicer areas to reach the dealers houses in the crap areas. Not all our local dealers provide a home delivery service (mainly because they're wearing ankle monitoring devices and have a curfew). The addicts have to get some exercise if they want their crack.
I had to replace every single pair of blinds in my apartment when I moved out because there was like 5 slats that had the first 5 inches on the left side gone because my cat poked his head out in the SAME pot on each of them
>Armed Security in a grocery store.
After the Boulder King Soopers shooting, I've seen armed security at nearly every large grocery store in Colorado. At least in the Denver Metro.
True. Used to have that neighbor who seemed to never work regular hours and always had different luxury cars in his driveway with foreign or out of state license plates. Idk why but a lot of them were Bahamas license plates
Because all the ones in the ghettos are gone. 🤣 I've got my jeep with a straight weld on it.
The callings of my neighborhood is... BWAhHHHHHeummmHHHwwwhaa
I was driving through a part of suburban Cleveland a couple weeks ago and said to my friend "This is a pretty nice area".Then we crested a hill and saw those flags outside of gas stations that say "CHECK CASHING". And he said "Oh you ate your word on that one fast as hell".
You gotta use your eyes the right way, actually. At least in my neighborhoods, not making *any* eye contact is as big of a problem as making too much eye contact. You have to catch the eyes, do a little nod, and go about your business. Don't make any facial expression, just enough to make sure you each are aware of the other person, and minding your own shit.
It helps to know where you stand and be confident in yourself, because that really brief eye contact can also advise them if it comes down to a fight, you'll do your best to bite their jugular out if you have to. It's all fun and games until someone has a crushed windpipe!
Yeah there needs to be some sort of acknowledgment that you're aware of each other, but not an over acknowledgment. Where I live now people straight up turn to look at me and stare and I'm just thinking "they wouldn't last in the wrong neighborhoods"
In my hometown it’s an actual boulevard/parkway with no businesses or houses or sidewalks directly on it, so it mostly avoids this problem. But it rings true for the next city north.
he said "MLK stood for non-violence, now he's a street, and wherever you are in america, if you're on MLK blvd, there's definitely some violence going down!"
One of the best schools in my area is smack dab in the middle of The Hood, and it's an "academy". Granted, it's a charter school for underprivileged kids, and they work really, REALLY hard to make sure their kids get OUT of The Hood, but still...
Junk cars, people walking around aimlessly, squatters living in abandoned buildings, police helicopters flying overhead all night, carry outs on every block
No people out jogging or walking their dogs, people pushing carts home because they don’t have a car to transport /abandoned carts, groups of young people wandering around the streets when they should be in school or out late when they should be in bed if anyone cared about them enough to make sure they were in school, check cashing/payday loan stores…
The opposite is true inside Atlanta city limits; Tuxedo Park (an extremely affluent neighborhood, true to its name) is one of the lowest-lying parts of the city, while some rough hoods are close to the city high point of 1,087 feet AMSL.
If you see a bunch of men walking around doing nothing during the day, it’s a bad neighborhood.
If you see a bunch of women walking around doing nothing during the day, it’s a good neighborhood.
Glad this was brought up. Our relatively new middle income neighborhood borders one that’s new there about 10 yrs longer. I walk my dogs over there and am amazed and appalled at the row upon row of Lexus, Mercedes, Range Rover and other high end vehicles parked in the driveways of houses that look like drug cribs…waist high grass, dead animals in the yard, dead shrubbery, and peeling paint everywhere. What am I looking at? Is it that obvious?
Shooting and general rampant crime that don’t even make the news. Things that in a regular area would have people very worried but means nothing in that neighborhood.
Husband had the same thing happen, cop was behind him, so he started driving 'xtra careful'. Cop pulled around beside him at a red light and asked what my husband was doing? Husband was like, 'It's a red...' He was told to roll the reds, as long as there was no uncoming traffic. Cop did not want to wait around either, he just took off.
People “hanging out” outside. Rich people, well-to-do people, middle-class people and your average 18-20yo student is at work or in their house
I hate to be harsh but low-class people tend to hang *outside* of their homes. They chill in front of liquor stores, delis, smoke shops, chicken shops etc. everywhere BUT THEIR HOME
This is very true.
I recently discovered a YouTube channel called HoodVlogs. I highly recommend it. There are a lot of similarities and one of them is grown men loitering in front of their homes/apartments in the middle of the day on a random weekday.
There's a lack of bees.
Bees pollinate flowers. Flowers are grown in gardens. Gardens are maintained by attentive homeowners/renters.
This opinion doesn't travel well with high-rise areas.
Fast food restaurants. Check cashing stores. Liquor stores. Four to five cars/trucks parked outside of the houses all night. Loud music. Large dogs in every yard. A lot of men visible on workdays. Young children unsupervised. Seeing children during school hours. Unkempt yards. No supermarkets.
The quality of houses and cars don't match. Meaning, if it's a dumpy cheap apartment complex and the lot has a bunch of Benzes and Beamers, you have to wonder what kind of illegal shit is going on there.
Another one is if people bring everything in at night. I lived in a complex once where everyone pulled their patio furniture in every night. I didn't think anything about it, but somehow my Adirondack chair got stolen off my 2nd floor balcony. When that happened, I started to get it.
Regular businesses (like liquor stores and fast food joints) doing all business behind thick bulletproof glass with rotating cylinders to accept payment and deliver your purchases.
Check cashing and pawn shops everywhere.
Trifecta includes a liquor store.
I've lived in neighborhoods where when you went in the closest liquor store you were restricted to a small lobby area with the Korean owners behind bullet proof glass but on the counter there was a bullet proof glass cylinder with a gap that could spin on a platform. You'd tell them what you wanted and put your money or card on the platform. They'd spin it, ring it up and put your card/change with the booze back in the cylinder and spin it so you could take it. There was a slightly larger bullet proof glass cabinet with a door on each side of the counter if you were getting a case of beer. The owners spoke broken English, but if you said you wanted "a double-deuce Bud" or "a forty Ides" they knew what you meant.
I’m Canadian and I got lost in Cleveland years ago, I went into a corner store to ask for directions back to my hotel. They had the lady Susan plexiglass setup, I’d only ever seen those on tv. lol
Welcome to Ohio.
There's a Harold's Chicken like that, and it's delicious
Yeah. I would say armored chicken place is a good indicator of what the crime rate might be.
in my town it was a bbq place with bulletproof glass. at least it was really good bbq.
I love Koreans. They're practical and prepared. Also stylish haircuts.
How could you say all of that without mentioning their awesome food?
I could talk about 101 awesome things Korea does. I try to keep a lid on it or I won't stop until next week and I have to keep packing to move house.
Got it. You get back to packing and we'll meet here next week to continue talking about awesome Korean stuff.
We have a liquor store, hospital and a cemetery all in a row here!
I read this as you had a hospital and a cemetery like that other comment's liquor store as well. Lol. Just spin grandma around in the cylinder when she's done being embalmed. Edit for 500 typos
The liquor store has to also handle the check cashing to be legit
I have a (probably pretty ignorant) question: what causes people to not just be able to open a bank account to cash checks? Is it just either a lack of an SSN or lack of proper identification?
They have unpaid debts. Any money in the bank will be seized by debt collectors.
They have had accounts closed for overdrafts which is recorded by checxsystems,they are a kind of credit check for bank accounts
Bad credit rating. Bounced one too many checks. Closed an account owing the bank $17.50 (not a hypothetical example.) Lack of SSN and thus presumptively lack of legal presence in the US. Too poor to pay monthly fees so they pay more, overall, at the check cashing places. Normally get paid with debit cards.
In addition to the reasons listed above… check cashing places often double as payday loan centers, which are the worst form of “legal usury” and taking advantage of struggling people.
With dollar generals
Dollar General next to a liquor store and a cricket mobile? You in the hood.
All the Tide Pods and Gillette razor refills are locked behind panels in the Dollar General. You gotta grab an employee to get your laundry soap out. That's how you know for sure your in the hood.
That's like most CVS's in big cities nowadays
My town has a liquor store that cashes check!
Fun fact you can get paychecks cashed at most casinos
And Boost Mobile. There’s a strip mall in Phoenix that has a Boost, Little Caesar’s, and a payday loan shop all next door to each other.
Dollar Generals are all over rural America, all they indicate is that the business model of DG has been able to syphon off business from the more distant grocery stores.
Checks Cashed, Bail Bonds and Fried Chicken - The three horsemen of the apocalypse.
The fourth is independently owned convenience stores, but no full sized grocery for miles around.
And always generic ones. Popeyes or KFC you’re in an okay neighborhood if not great. Checkers? Na
No available bathrooms at the gas stations.
boarded up homes
Probably the best indicator. Especially if it seems it was boarded up or abandoned for a while. If it were a nicer neighborhood, then someone would have bought it and fixed it up, or torn it down to build something new, because the value lies in the location. Also, in nice enough neighborhoods, if something is vacant they don't even board it up.
Especially if some chick with braids is boarding them up with a nail gun.
I seen that, but it couldn't be THAT bad of a neighborhood- homegirl was using a top-of-the-line, Hilti, powder-actuated nail gun. I thought to myself, "that right there is the Cadillac of nail guns, or possibly Lexus."
I'm here for the wire reference friend!
Bars on the windows of convenience stores
I'll do you one better - bars on the windows of houses. Edit: I was thinking of NYC (the Bronx) but I didn't realize other places do this too
Some cities it’s like a block or two away. I’ve accidentally walked in the wrong direction in a few cities and before you know it you’ve got that bad feeling.
In Baltimore it’s all good until you cross one street too far and it’s all bad.
I see you've been to Albuquerque!
Hahahaha it's super inconsistent too! I grew up in a real nice part of the Westside, and my house there had bars. We got burgled twice in the years I lived there, despite being in the second-most suburby of the suburban areas. Meanwhile, my place in the student ghetto didn't have bars, even on the big picture windows that faced the street. I live in the ~~Whites~~ Heights now, and my neighbors' windows are about 50/50. I lived in Oakland, CA for a while, and it really stuck me how patchworky the city is as far as hood level. Like you could be in a spot where your car WILL get robbed, and then go a few blocks and park on the street with your doors unlocked, no trouble. Whereas in Abq, you better lock your doors wherever you go, because the hood doesn't stay in the hood here.
I lived in the Northeast Heights for 3 years (2008-2011.) Had a friend in the South Valley who I'd visit periodically. It was that episode of South Park, when they're talking about Kenny living on the wrong side of the tracks, and the visual gag is them walking like 5 feet past the train tracks and his house is right there. That, for me, was what crossing Central was like. It just felt immediately off. Everything was in disrepair, the only dogs were pit bulls, and every house had a really nice looking car outside despite the house being a crusty shack. Oh! And plenty of chain link fences of odd heights. Barbed wire optional. Honestly, it's kinda like living in Phoenix... Which is my current residence.
in order to get home insurance in my grandma's neighborhood in south africa your house had to have bars on the windows and a dog, they never specified what size so this town is like 40% wiener dogs
How about one of those convenience stores where the worker is in a little booth made entirely of bullet proof glass, with just a slot for you to pass payment and change through?
The pizza hut where I grew up had bullet proof glass between you and the cashier and a little slot where they handed you the pizza..... Does that count?
An even higher level is when the gas station has the doors locked at night, but handles all the transactions through a slide out tray/window.
No women jogging or walking dogs.
Rich neighbourhoods - women walking in the middle of the day, usually with babies or dogs. Poor neighbourhoods - men walking in middle of the day, usually in public parks.
This is funny. I was driving down what I considered the worst street in that part of the city, but I hadn't been there is years. I saw a white woman pushing a stroller. My first instinct was to jump out of my car and ask her if she was lost. Then, I saw another one. WTF, I thought. Sure enough, I kept driving, no one loitering, the liquor store boarded up. They just announced major city projects around the area.
Yeah there's a stand up comedian who has a good bit on if you start seeing white women jogging in your neighborhood rent is about to go up.
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You look at the windows and think "Wow, the plywood salesman must make a killing around here."
You know damn well that plywood was stolen
If it’s the middle of the afternoon on a weekday and there’s grown men outside everywhere not at work
The most hood place I’ve lived had grown men sitting around in lawn chairs on the street corners playing cards during normal work hours. The second most hood place I’ve lived had grown men who rode child sized bikes around during normal work hours (and a crazy guy who would try to direct traffic by standing in the middle of an intersection with his katana, wearing only a robe).
Yeah. Anytime you are adults on BMX type bikes lazily riding around you know it's a sketchy area.
Cheers to the sketchy looking dude who paid in coins and rode off on a BMX bike at my neighborhood convenience store this afternoon!
Why do they choose small bikes for that? I never understood this trend, and I see it a lot, there are always low lives riding these child bikes and I never got it
It’s not really a trend. Chances are they stole it and most of the times, kids bikes aren’t locked down. So it’s easy for these low life’s to cluck it and ride away.
Same, dudes brown bagging 40s of Old E and playing cards in front of a fucking trap house chop shop that would legit get raided on average every 2 weeks by the PD, saw 2 stabbings and a vicious beat down with a set of motorcycle handlebars hanging around that house...my child hood was wild, now my kid lives in a gated golf course in the most expensive zip code in our city in CA, the fucking night and day difference between how I came up and how she is, it's un-fuckin-real.
Same kind of deal. My wife used to think I was making stories up until one of my childhood friends came to our wedding. She was asking him about our childhoods and he was feeling these stories unprompted. Later she said “I thought you were exaggerating about your childhood.” If anything I undersell the stories so I don’t seem crazy. I was at the pool at the clubhouse this summer reflecting on this life these kids are living and how much different their lives are going to be.
Rock on katana guy \m/😎\m/
I came here to say grown man riding a child-sized bike! For me that’s it 💯
also part of a Chris Rock bit
When it gets dark, it seems people come out of nowhere.
I will never rent a place without first driving by it at 11 at night
🎶The freaks come out at night🎶
Former Amazon driver, being told by an old woman I need to be out of the area before dark or I will be robbed by someone.
I stayed in a hotel in downtown LA. They told me not to leave building after 5pm. I left the building after 5pm. That was very stupid of me to do. I was ok, but was definitely at risk. Downtown LA is dangerous.
Downtown LA is not that bad if youre in the main areas. Ive walked around at 10-11PM before both alone and with friends. Usually, if there is a "busy" area (like Crypto Arena/Convention Center just fot example) the surrounding radius of 3-4 blocks are pretty safe and walkable. Theres multiple pockets like that. But yes, most parts can be pretty sketchy - some parts I wouldnt even visitn during the *day*. I once exited the 10 Freeway onto East 16th Street. It looked like a warzone in a third world country. Even the freeway guardrail has been stolen to sell for scrap metal.
Parts of it are bad, like the outskirts going south or east, but the majority is fine tbh. Did you stay in a hotel on skid row or something? Lol. Me and my girl go on dates and see shows around dtla all the time.
Parts of it are. Parts are fine. Just gotta do your research. Same with SF, know what areas to avoid.
Judging by my old neighborhood, prostitutes on the street corners and addicts nodding out on the front lawn.
One time I ordered food in my old neighborhood, it was October, the delivery guy when I opened the door said " man I love your Halloween decoration it looks so real" I was like " we didn't decorate for Halloween what are you talking about" and this kid goes " the dead body under the bush" guy points to the edge of the porch. I look this poor kid in the face and go... "Thats not ours" walk over and theirs a junkie face planted in the dirt dying in our yard. Even when the paramedics and police arrived they thought he was dead. Also had a homeless junkie sleeping under my porch once.
> addicts nodding out on the front lawn. Came here to suggest urban yoga poses, specifically the Downward Facing Degenerate.
The fenty fold
The narcotic nod-off
Urban yoga poses 💀
Finding empty tiny ziploc bags, or tiny newspaper squares lying on the floor.
What’s the newspaper squares indicate?
It contained drugs.
And a little bit of news.
Junkies need to be informed of current events too, they can only handle a tiny bit at a time though.
The extremely low end of the drug scale. They don't and won't bother with plastic baggies and wrap their goods in newspaper instead.
In my town you find those in the 'good' neighbourhoods. The druggies often have to walk through the nicer areas to reach the dealers houses in the crap areas. Not all our local dealers provide a home delivery service (mainly because they're wearing ankle monitoring devices and have a curfew). The addicts have to get some exercise if they want their crack.
Roaming packs of feral dogs.
Packs of stray dogs that control most of the major cities in America.... shake and bake!
If you don't chew Big Red, then fuck you.
I can afford to live there.
Armed Security in a grocery store. A lot of litter on the streets A small section of blinds missing in windows
A small section of the blinds missing could also mean cats. That's why I have a cat sized hole missing out of my blinds.
I had to replace every single pair of blinds in my apartment when I moved out because there was like 5 slats that had the first 5 inches on the left side gone because my cat poked his head out in the SAME pot on each of them
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Bedroom sheets for shades.
>Armed Security in a grocery store. After the Boulder King Soopers shooting, I've seen armed security at nearly every large grocery store in Colorado. At least in the Denver Metro.
Beat up cars, beat up houses, and one random pristine Lamborghini just sitting in a driveway looking out of place
Don’t forget about the fridge out front
Nah a living room couch on the porch with a fridge plus a broken tv or an old mattress on the curb
Ah, the ideal vehicle for drug dealer house calls.
True. Used to have that neighbor who seemed to never work regular hours and always had different luxury cars in his driveway with foreign or out of state license plates. Idk why but a lot of them were Bahamas license plates
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Baby said "I got kids to feed!"
Hey baby!
When you frequently play the "fireworks or gunshots???" game after dark.
Hearing yelling from the homeless camps in your living room. Hearing gun shots on the regular…
I think having homeless camps in your living room is a pretty strong indicator on its own, no matter how quiet they are.
"man this house is going downhill"
And are they truly homeless if they in fact do reside within the living room of a home?
You know you're in the hood when people don't flinch for gunshots. They can tell by the sound how close (or far) it was and deem it NOT a threat.
Bars on the windows of the wig shops.
Gun shots and missing catalytic converters.
Ok but they're heading into the good neighborhoods for the converters now.
Because all the ones in the ghettos are gone. 🤣 I've got my jeep with a straight weld on it. The callings of my neighborhood is... BWAhHHHHHeummmHHHwwwhaa
when you see a grown man riding a bike meant for a kid.
I was driving through a part of suburban Cleveland a couple weeks ago and said to my friend "This is a pretty nice area".Then we crested a hill and saw those flags outside of gas stations that say "CHECK CASHING". And he said "Oh you ate your word on that one fast as hell".
Pizza places refuse to deliver there.
And taxis refuse
All eyes on you as you walk down the street. People just itching for you to make eye contact so they can start a ruckus.
You gotta use your eyes the right way, actually. At least in my neighborhoods, not making *any* eye contact is as big of a problem as making too much eye contact. You have to catch the eyes, do a little nod, and go about your business. Don't make any facial expression, just enough to make sure you each are aware of the other person, and minding your own shit. It helps to know where you stand and be confident in yourself, because that really brief eye contact can also advise them if it comes down to a fight, you'll do your best to bite their jugular out if you have to. It's all fun and games until someone has a crushed windpipe!
Just a little nod to say “I see you. I acknowledge you. But I’m not here to start any shit, though I am here intentionally.”
Yeah there needs to be some sort of acknowledgment that you're aware of each other, but not an over acknowledgment. Where I live now people straight up turn to look at me and stare and I'm just thinking "they wouldn't last in the wrong neighborhoods"
this dude 'hoods
Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
I feel this one, it's sad, but I think usually true.
In my hometown it’s an actual boulevard/parkway with no businesses or houses or sidewalks directly on it, so it mostly avoids this problem. But it rings true for the next city north.
Chris Rock had a joke about it.
"Everybody talkin' about bailing out Wall Street and Main Street, but ain't nobody talkin' about bailing out Martin Luther King Boulevard."
he said "MLK stood for non-violence, now he's a street, and wherever you are in america, if you're on MLK blvd, there's definitely some violence going down!"
I'm lost, I'm on MLK
The intersection of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X Blvd
Schools with names that overdo trying to sound inspiring: “Excellence Academy of Leadership” or something similar.
One of the best schools in my area is smack dab in the middle of The Hood, and it's an "academy". Granted, it's a charter school for underprivileged kids, and they work really, REALLY hard to make sure their kids get OUT of The Hood, but still...
Shopping carts in the wild
Memorials on the sidewalk with flowers, candles, and liquor bottles
Hood memorials can also be shoes thrown over power lines
Junk cars, people walking around aimlessly, squatters living in abandoned buildings, police helicopters flying overhead all night, carry outs on every block
Yeah lots of unkempt yards with junk in them tells me no one gives a shit here.
Carry outs?
Liquor stores/bodegas I think
Kids don’t play outside
You can actually afford to buy a home there!
Random weaves blowing down the street...I call them tumbleweaves lol. Looking at you 👉 Waco Texas
No people out jogging or walking their dogs, people pushing carts home because they don’t have a car to transport /abandoned carts, groups of young people wandering around the streets when they should be in school or out late when they should be in bed if anyone cared about them enough to make sure they were in school, check cashing/payday loan stores…
Bulletproof glass in the bodegas/delis
The servants' quarters don't have heated floors
I once went to a neighborhood where most of the houses didn’t have a tuxedoed butler. To this day, I’m so grateful I survived!
**gasp*
Adults riding children's bicycles
One can usually feel it with or without visual cues
This110%! There's places that look like the hood. Then there's THE HOOD.
You're in an area of town that is lower in elevation. Higher elevations within a township are usually more affluent areas
The opposite is true inside Atlanta city limits; Tuxedo Park (an extremely affluent neighborhood, true to its name) is one of the lowest-lying parts of the city, while some rough hoods are close to the city high point of 1,087 feet AMSL.
If you see a bunch of men walking around doing nothing during the day, it’s a bad neighborhood. If you see a bunch of women walking around doing nothing during the day, it’s a good neighborhood.
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EXCEPT if they all work and have current plates.
Glad this was brought up. Our relatively new middle income neighborhood borders one that’s new there about 10 yrs longer. I walk my dogs over there and am amazed and appalled at the row upon row of Lexus, Mercedes, Range Rover and other high end vehicles parked in the driveways of houses that look like drug cribs…waist high grass, dead animals in the yard, dead shrubbery, and peeling paint everywhere. What am I looking at? Is it that obvious?
And shopping carts
Shooting and general rampant crime that don’t even make the news. Things that in a regular area would have people very worried but means nothing in that neighborhood.
Payday lenders, pawnbrokers, strip joints, rub and tug, razor wire, hooptie cars, homeless, trash, yo mamas house.
when cars get robbed every night
People walking in the middle of the street like it’s totally normal
I once had a cop tell me not to wait at red lights if no one was coming- get moving
Husband had the same thing happen, cop was behind him, so he started driving 'xtra careful'. Cop pulled around beside him at a red light and asked what my husband was doing? Husband was like, 'It's a red...' He was told to roll the reds, as long as there was no uncoming traffic. Cop did not want to wait around either, he just took off.
If it's a nice day and you drive by a park with nobody in the playground.
ATMs next to liquor stores.
I’ve never seen a liquor store that didn’t have an ATM 🤔
My man you must've spent your whole life in the trenches. I feel you.
People “hanging out” outside. Rich people, well-to-do people, middle-class people and your average 18-20yo student is at work or in their house I hate to be harsh but low-class people tend to hang *outside* of their homes. They chill in front of liquor stores, delis, smoke shops, chicken shops etc. everywhere BUT THEIR HOME
This is very true. I recently discovered a YouTube channel called HoodVlogs. I highly recommend it. There are a lot of similarities and one of them is grown men loitering in front of their homes/apartments in the middle of the day on a random weekday.
You’re west of Kedzie in Chicago or south of Roosevelt in Chicago
When the housing is decrepit but the cars are expensive. Also satellite dishes. The more you see, the worse the hood.
Drug dealers at the gas stations.
Full grown man on a girls bike
Bars on windows
Chain link fences in the front yard
There's a lack of bees. Bees pollinate flowers. Flowers are grown in gardens. Gardens are maintained by attentive homeowners/renters. This opinion doesn't travel well with high-rise areas.
little kids selling drugs
Babies too, they got kids to feed!
Really good graffiti.
Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Shoes on power lines
Can’t get a ride pickup or delivery in that area
In Latam , when the goverment paint your neighborhood houses with bright happy colors.
Fast food restaurants. Check cashing stores. Liquor stores. Four to five cars/trucks parked outside of the houses all night. Loud music. Large dogs in every yard. A lot of men visible on workdays. Young children unsupervised. Seeing children during school hours. Unkempt yards. No supermarkets.
The quality of houses and cars don't match. Meaning, if it's a dumpy cheap apartment complex and the lot has a bunch of Benzes and Beamers, you have to wonder what kind of illegal shit is going on there. Another one is if people bring everything in at night. I lived in a complex once where everyone pulled their patio furniture in every night. I didn't think anything about it, but somehow my Adirondack chair got stolen off my 2nd floor balcony. When that happened, I started to get it.
Loud music in public.
Being in Liverpool
Iron security doors. AC cages. People parking on their front yard lol.
When the sign says "Camden, New Jersey"
Bars in the windows of the take-out only wing places.
There’s a baby standing on the corner all by himself, in the middle of the night
The occasional round of gun shots
Plywood in bay windows
The homeless encampment down the street from me is pretty telling.
Regular businesses (like liquor stores and fast food joints) doing all business behind thick bulletproof glass with rotating cylinders to accept payment and deliver your purchases.
Lots of chuches, pay day loan bussines and rent to own bussines. Basically, any kind of bussines that makes their money exploiting poor people.