re: Whats it like living in a real bad ghetto?

My (white - this is important for later...) grandmother bought a small (five apartment - one was for her) apartment building in a part of Brookly that over time became, if not "the ghetto" then a really crappy neighborhood.

But here is the funny thing, while "white flight" took place and all her fellow owners, the Irish, the Germans, Italians moved out she stubbornly refused to do so. She also treated everyone (regardless of skin color) nicely. Of course that did not apply to a-holes but that was due to bad behavior not race. And wouldn't you know she became like the most protected women from her (new) neighbors who respected that. It was known - well known - you can do all kinds of crap - I mean you should not - but don't even think of doing anything bad to "Mrs Emma". Then everyone would come down on you even badass gangbangers Over time even more support was given "Do you need Groceries" type stuff.

She lived there in peace, never disturbed. until she died. At age 101. So many people came to her funeral and some of them were, to put it mildly, not the type you would want to mess with. But when they found out I was her grandson they said I can always be chill, I had some sort of "permanent passage" or something in the area.

People are people, what can I say?

Use to live in corpus. Curious where the hood is there? I had family that lived in sheds behind houses. But did not consider it hood.

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Apartment complexes and non whites don’t make a place the the ghetto

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Some moms worked incredibly hard (2-3) jobs to try to get out of the neighborhood. The problem is, when you're working that much, your kids are alone much of the time.

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And welfare cuts off your benefits because you made too much.


System designed by democrats to keep the poor in poverty, not help them out of it.

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And welfare cuts off your benefits because you made too much.

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You don't think these people know when they are approaching the make too much that puts them over the poverty level? Each generation gets better at beating the system. They get close they quit working the government assistance is like crack.

At 12:15 in the afternoon on a Wednesday the men are standing around not working. Per Chris Rock, this differs from a nice area where at this same time the women would not be working.

Smells like bbq chicken and weed, with the faint smell of coco butter when the wind shifts!

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Whats it like living in a real bad ghetto?

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Couldn’t tell ya. My parents weren’t fricking losers.

I’ll ask my son - he goes to LSU.