What cities/parts of the US would you consider to be third world?
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Cabrini Green is located on the near north side of Chicago and there is no more Cabrini Green as almost all the buildings have been razed and the entire neighborhood is in the process of being redeveloped into a combo of high rises and houses.
Nope never heard of EC Illa but I looked him up right now.
vodkazvictim
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Capitol hill.
Why you ask? Because there's corruption there to rival any third world country.
Why you ask? Because there's corruption there to rival any third world country.
The locals called it "Allie". I broke down once about 15 miles outside of allie, little town called Bunkie, LA. looks like where they based the first resident evil game for playstation1 off of. No cell phone signal, town has 2 police and they're both somewhere out on the highway the dispatcher at the police station tells me. There is only a gas station, police station, churchs chicken, and 1 hotel in the town. There are no taxis or buses. I do not want to be stuck here. I go to the sign and write on a piece of cardboard that I need a ride to the next town "Allie" which is only 15 miles away. This is a small town where everybody knows everybody I guess. I'm outside for an hour talking to everyone, they all ignore me. I talk to the cashier girl and she calls her cousin. He says he'll take me there for $50. I'm like fuckit whatever, at least in a bigger city I can hop a greyhound bus outta there and get to airport, rental car place, or something.
I give dude $50 and hop in this rusty pickup truck with a baseball sized crack on the windshield for the ride. He's driving like 20mph the whole way, I ask wtf and he says the cops always stop everyone from bunkie on the way to Allie. Sure enough, about 7 miles down the road are the 2 cops, with 2 cars pulled over. On the way from Bunkie to Alexandria looks like a nuclear testing ground. Houses with no roofs, no doors, no windows... still occupied. Spooky, like "children of the corn" if you've ever seen that flick. So then we finally get to Allie and he drops me off near the greyhound station. Now the fun begins because the next bus out doesn't leave for 6 hours and its dark now.
I buy my ticket, and sit down at the station at 10pm they kick me and everyone else out of the station saying they will reopen it in a few hours when the bus gets here. So 10pm, cold, pitch dark on the hoodiest hood part of town I have ever seen (greyhound stations are always in these areas, why i don't fucking know!) so I gotta basically wander around the city for 4hrs with a suitcase in tow looking like eddie did in coming to america. I found a KFC and ate there, slowly. Once my food was done they have a habit of kicking you out of everywhere. They say its due to frequent robberies etc. And they're probably right. Everywhere people are lurking in the shadows, mostly dopefiends, dopedealers, tranny hoes, etc. Maybe there is a better side of the town in Allie but clearly the greyhound station ain't on that side. I could go on and on but who cares
roronoa3000
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.... except thats ridiculous.
Cabrini Green? Isn't that where the Candyman lives? Or at least that documentary film about him told me that...what that wasn't a documentary filmed in real time...sonova!!!!
It was where the movie was filmed. As far as I know it was one of the most murderous complexes around, but maybe not anymore.
there are also tent cities worse than that in florida only a few miles from the beach, with people living in the woods off the grid. i guess every state has some spots like that. i always ponder why people don't leave bad areas, greyhound up outta there and dont look back
StanScratch
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I am insulted. I see Boehner improving quite a bit, actually...
To his own pocketbook.
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I was too pusssy whipped at the time to do anythiung other than go home as soon as I had any free time from my job training in Alexandria (My room to training site & that's all) so I never got to experience the 'Allie' & by your description doesn't seem like I'm missing much.
Sister dated a guy from Bunkie & I always knew/imagined it to be a little nothing town just as you described it. That's sad because Usually people from small towns are a bit more helpful than to charge someone $50 for a 15 mile ride.
Probably funny looking back on it ,but the experience must have been miserable.
Thanks for hysterically breaking down your experience in the "Allie' to me.
Just about every Texas border town, not so much the cities themselves but the, for lack of a better word, settlements called "colonias", literally means "colonies" but in Mexico that word is also used for "neighborhoods", where there's lots of poor migrant workers, and chock full of illegal immigrants, some places don't even have running water though the cities are doing what they can to hook them up. Walking or driving through them actually feels like driving through some Mexican neighborhood. In Laredo, Texas, just north of the courthouse, the condition of the streets and the look of the area just felt like a Mexican street, same thing for downtown Brownsville.
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He was the incumbent though. He's already been in office for how many years? Seems like he would have been focused on his home state long before now. I'm just sayin'...
The only reason I know much of anything about Boehner is because he passed out some "donation" checks to his compadres on the House floor back in the mid '90's, and some of the money came from tobacco companies in my state. Whims, you folks need to raise you some 'baccer, and then ol John will do for you what he's done for us. Anyway, I've never really been to a (real) 3rd World country. But to me "3rd World" is lack of running, clean water, intermittent electricity (if any at all), nonexistent infrastructure and a general cluster of social issues across the entire area being looked at; like the favelas in Brazil, many parts of India and Pakistan (leave me alone, Revamp :nono
and probably most of Bangladesh and Haiti (among other places).I think there are certain parts of Appalachia that probably fit that definition. I doubt most people here are even aware of any of these places, as they seldom show up on TV. And if they do show up, they're comically dismissed as a bunch of "redneck, uneducated, cousin-marrying hillbillies"... so who cares anyway, right? But from the various places I've been around the U.S., I haven't seen any major city that met that basic definition. But parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, West Virginia and Kentucky? Definitely!
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Fort Wayne ....!!!!! (sorry Bree, but what ARE you doing there ...?)
HeLovesPorn
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Whoa, what a depressing thread.
The thread starter wanted to make a specific point, so he wouldn't consider MS, TN, WV, and KY 3rd world even though they are.
New Orleans, La. Everyone should have witness the third world appearance after hurricane Katrina
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