How bad is your 'hood?

[SCW]

I'm moving tomorrow morning, won't be back online for a few days. We have been renting a house in kind of the depressed part of town for 6 moths, when we moved up from New Mexico. We rented this place unseen after seeing it online, but we went through a large property management company so we figured we were OK. Not so, the house is a rat-hole in a terrible neighborhood.

These are my neighbors (till tomorrow)

the Whore- Lives directly accross the street from us, she's a single mother, sunken & bloodshot eyes, smokes like a chimney and has very loud phone conversations on the porch that would make a sailor blush. I'm convinced she is a (low-dollar) whore based on the low-riders coming and going at all hours.

Fat man- I was out with my son walking down the street a few weeks ago and this big, fat moron drives by real slow, doesn't even acknowledge my friendly wave. He parks on the street in front of his house, get out and takes a piss in the street before walking (waddling) into the house. Classy.

Fat kid- A few doors down, the kid is about 10, maybe 4-feet tall and must weigh 150#. Everytime I've seen him he has ho-hos and gatorade. Why do parents do this? Noisey, but only sort-a obnoxious.

Theiving brat- This little 5-yr old girl comes over to play with my 5-yr old daughter. Can't belive anything she says, we found out weeks after we met that she didn't even tell us her real name. One day after playing she decided to steal my son's bike, it was in the Fat Kids yard when we found it. A few days later she was over here and her mom came to get her telling her that her dad just got out of prison and wanted to see her. Hooray.

The rest of the neighborhood has been quiet while the World Cup is on, but my wife watch 4 cop cars surround a car and pull guns this afternoon about 2 blocks from home.

So anyway, we are glad to be moving on. We rented this house just long enough to shop for and buy a house and we are leaving none too soon.


EDIT:

Just as a side note, twice in the last 6 months I have had to grab a pistol and head out to make sure the roving pit-bulls don't try anything stupid. Nice dogs both times, but I don't take chances when I have 4 kids in the yard and two pits are running the steets.

[XgeekstarX]

the only thing that sucks about my neighborhood is the fact that i live down the street from the water reclamation facility. it gets pretty ripe from time to time.

[ILLXJ]

Sounds nice.:scared: Just like the neighborhood I lived in, in Utica,NY. Glad to be coompletely out of that state. I live in the semi-boonnies now. Much nicer. JIM.

[WB9YZU]

Amaizing, there are bad neighborhoods in Salt Lake City ?!!

I have lived in a couple awe inspiring places like that.

[Chero-King]

Jeez all I have are cranky old people, who dont like anything thats louder than they're little ford focus. Called the cops twice on us for taking our dune buggy and pocket bike to the field down the street and around a corner, I know they can barely hear it so I dont know why they care.

[WB9YZU]

Jeez all I have are cranky old people, who dont like anything thats louder than they're little ford focus. Called the cops twice on us for taking our dune buggy and pocket bike to the field down the street and around a corner, I know they can barely hear it so I dont know why they care.

Because they don't feel included.

Also, don't be so sure they can't hear it. When you sit in a silent house, even the deaf ones can hear the mice crap.

With just the computers running, I can hear a getto car thumping 3-4 blocks away.

[Chero-King]

Because they don't feel included.

Also, don't be so sure they can't hear it. When you sit in a silent house, even the deaf ones can hear the mice crap.

With just the computers running, I can hear a getto car thumping 3-4 blocks away.


Yeahh Im also the hated one on my street because I always have loud "toys". S
since I moved here around 5 or 6 years ago i've driven down the street on more than one occasion... a dune buggy, 2 dirtbikes (one 2 two-stroke 125 wth no silencer) a pocket bike(several times), 2 quads, and a snowmobile(in the winter of course).

So I guesse I dont blame them for hating us. :D

[DrMoab]

Mind if I ask what neighborhood SCW? I have a feeling its the Rose Park area of SLC?

Just a guess.

[brokexj]

Sounds like my old first due. Fun for work, not for family.

[JeeperG]

Mind if I ask what neighborhood SCW? I have a feeling its the Rose Park area of SLC?

I was thinking the same thing, even know I "might" be moving there? :dunno:

[Sarge]

Let's see...

Four doors down: constant parade of kids in and out picking up their booze and smokes.

Above that one: crack cooker.

Six doors down: Child molester (convicted and registered), he's been close to going "swimming" a few times. (10 of the XXXXs in a six block area.)

Two buildings over: Steady flow of cars that stop in the street while one runs in and buys some drugs.

Diagonally across street: Crazy lady who stands outside at all hours shouting at the wind.

One block down: Another drug house.

Somewhere in the area: Someones cooking meth.

Everyone watches their registration tags close as the damn things disappear on a regular basis.

Corner store at the other end of town will sell booze and tobacco to anyone who comes in the door.

There's more but that's all I can think of off the top of my head. Oh and I live within a block of the cop shop.

Sarge

[SCW]

Mind if I ask what neighborhood SCW? I have a feeling its the Rose Park area of SLC?

Just a guess.

West Valley, right west of Valley Fair mall. We are moving quite a ways further west, 4500S and 5500W- it's still West Valley but it's a lot better area.

When we first moved here I was running the dog in the area and saw a really run-down beat-up house with missing windows and trashed yard. They also had two caddies and a Lexus out front and the place smelled like ammonia. I flagged down a cop and showed it to him but I don't think anything ever came of it.

Shane

[DrMoab]

West Valley, right west of Valley Fair mall. We are moving quite a ways further west, 4500S and 5500W- it's still West Valley but it's a lot better area.

When we first moved here I was running the dog in the area and saw a really run-down beat-up house with missing windows and trashed yard. They also had two caddies and a Lexus out front and the place smelled like ammonia. I flagged down a cop and showed it to him but I don't think anything ever came of it.

Shane
LOL West Valley. No wonder you hate this place so bad.

We always joke about the news. If there is a murder, mugging, rape, robbery, car jacking or any other mayhem it always seems to come from West Valley.

[Gil BullyKatz]

Ummm....

I live in the ghetto...

and in the crappiest rental on the block.

[DrMoab]

Ummm....

I live in the ghetto...

and in the crappiest rental on the block.
Yeah and you look like it too. :D

Kidding.

[Gil BullyKatz]

Yeah and you look like it too. :D

Kidding.

It's alright...

Just like in nature...

We must sometimes adjust our appearance to blend in and avoid detection...

We call it...

"Ghettoflage"


:D

[red91]

It's alright...

Just like in nature...

We must sometimes adjust our appearance to blend in and avoid detection...

We call it...

"Ghettoflage"


:D

I hear ryan dresses up in "jesus jammies" to blend in where he's at.

:D

[DrMoab]

I hear ryan dresses up in "jesus jammies" to blend in where he's at.

:D
LOL Jesus jammies....the magic underware! I had a friend who worked in a nursing home. He would steal them from the old folks when they died and wear them as casual clothes.

BTW I also walk around SLC with my wife AND her sister. Feels more natural you know.

[Gil BullyKatz]

BTW I also walk around SLC with my wife AND her sister. Feels more natural you know.


When in Rome...

[bjoehandley]

Thought my area was bad, half dozen tenement (sp?) houses with "Migrant Workers", two gangs within 2 blocks on each side of me, a house that likes to throw parties every now and then that has a drunken resident that likes to yell "IIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII--HAHAHA, from 7pm till 1am when I call the cops (I kinda feel sorry for their neigbors, I live two houses and an intersection away from these !%@$#%^* and they annoy the hell out of me), and the occasional @$$ gas cannon equiped econo car blasting it's radio as it drives by the house about the same time.

[IndyXJ]

No problems here in rural Indiana where I'm at. Dust coming off the fields during harvest time, that's about it, lol! There is no way I could live in the places some of you have described, hats off!

[bjoehandley]

Nice, you guys even get real gasoline out there too, don't you?

[Bradlybob]

I guess it could be worse, like the folks here who pay $400,000 plus for a new house and 2 months later find out that 1/2 the houses in their new neighborhood are section 8 with all the welfare sterotypes parading down the street everyday.

[creeperjeep]

In my hood alot of people have assault rifles. Most of the guys that dont have assault rifles either raise sheep or camels.

[XJRunner]

I live down a private road at in the bunnies with a acre and a quarter of and. A 75 by 500 foot auxirlary garage and a 3000 sqft house.

The jackass who built our house terriozed out neighboorhood for 3 years. He purposley ran over my neighboors dog,ran thruough a tree my dad was cutting down and tried hitting my dad when he was laying pavers for the entrance to his garage driveway. Funny thing is my dad swung at his truck with his pik to stop him and the pik got stuck in the trucks hood

[camarors8992]

oh, so you hate people because of their weight ? Way to be a winner.

[ROOK1]

West Valley, right west of Valley Fair mall.

When we first moved here I was running the dog in the area and saw a really run-down beat-up house with missing windows and trashed yard. They also had two caddies and a Lexus out front and the place smelled like ammonia. I flagged down a cop and showed it to him but I don't think anything ever came of it.

Shane

That is the worst part of WVC. Glad you made it out alive, there is only a one in ten chance of that.

The cops know better than to stop in that "hood" so it doesn't suprise me that nothing happened.

[TC]

Lived in a small Farming town for several years before moving back to the country. Went to Florida with another couple who lived in an upscale new development from a larger city one time for vacation. They picked us up on the way and freaked out when they saw we were leaving our windows open (yeah, they had screens in them). They worried the entire week that we were gone, we tried to convince them it wasn't a problem, we did it all the time. Keys were left in vehicles, garages left open, doors unlocked at night or when we ran errands, bikes or other items left outside etc.. Lived that way most of my life, can't imagine living any other way.
I work in peoples homes from time to time who deadbolt the door every time I go in and out. Seems like living in a prison to me, don't know why anyone would choose to live that way, but to each his own I guess. TC

[kubtastic]

Everything's good in the 45434. I know half my neighbors by first name and get free/cheap stuff at garage sales every weekend.
but then again someone robbed the 24-hour kroger a few months back at I think knife-point, so now I go elsewhere for my late night cravings.

[UNCC_99XJ]

I too have a neighbor across the street who's a whore...only she's 20, but has the same symptoms....people going in and out all night long, smokes more cigarettes in one day then are actually manufactured, really into the weed, and always got bloodshot eyes. She's also on her 4th car, she's wrecked the previous 3 (one of them twice) and every time mommy and daddy buy her a new one. Then again mommy and daddy have been playing bumper cars for as long as they've lived here..and the funny thing is they always hit their own cars in their own driveway...every time....maybe its cause they're oriental? Her brother was the kind who was really into alcohol and throwin down parties untill he got shipped off to boot camp for a year...and his life did a complete 180 and he's like your average person.

Neighbor on my right is an old lady...recently widowed...feel bad for her there. However she's also one of those nosey old ladies...always and I mean ALWAYS askin me a MILLION questions about what im doing. Anytime i'm workin on either of the Jeep's first thing she asks is "car trouble?", "every time I see you you've got the hood up on one of those Jeeps".....two words lady, preventative maintanence.

And on my left is by far some of the coolest people I know. The guy is a retired vietnam vet, who's got all kinds of stories to tell, and is always tellin jokes and makin people laugh. The man is a genius...knows pretty much everything about cars, computers, and anything else you can probably think of, and he's an electrical engineer. He's got two vette's (mid 80's) and his wife is one of the nicest people you'd ever meet. They're the kind of people we think of as family, as do they to us, and we're always gettin together to do something.

I live in a pretty good area compared to alot of others on here, but no neighborhood is with without its one outcast house (which happens to be across the street from mine)

[Matthew Currie]

I live in rural Vermont. An annoying dog ran across my yard last week, and some delinquent bats have moved into the barn. Neighborhood is going to hell. It's tough all over.

[bjoehandley]

I live in rural Vermont. An annoying dog ran across my yard last week, and some delinquent bats have moved into the barn. Neighborhood is going to hell. It's tough all over.


Oh if I had those problems I wouldn't know what to do......

My mom was reading the other day that Naperville, Illinois, which is one of if not the best towns in the US to raise a kid, had to make a law for urinating on the sidewalk and makes thousands of dollars off of fines written for people who break it and has among the highest DUI arrests in the county too. This make anybody else feel better about their 'hood now?

[SCW]

I live in rural Vermont. An annoying dog ran across my yard last week, and some delinquent bats have moved into the barn. Neighborhood is going to hell. It's tough all over.


Dude- get out before the property values tank.

I used to live out on a small farm in Central Utah, the nearest gas station was 86 miles (one way) andthe nearest paved road was 45 miles. I'd probably be ok if I could find a happy medium between small town life and big city life. A town about 25,000 would be fine with me


The new house is nice, but the tennants that were renting it when we bought it were complete slobs. It will take a few days to get things cleaned up (and the odors out of the carpet), then I'll start on my plans for a garage :D

[RichP]

Where we live, you call the state police for problems, report a prowler and the dispatchers first question is 'do you have a gun and know how to use it' [freaked my wife out :D I was on a business trip], then 'trooper will be there in 30 min, he's about 20 miles away', 'don't shoot him, he'll have his flasher lights on'...

Then I called a few months ago late nite to report someone screwing with our jeeps, 'we had a prowler undoing lug nuts on our jeeps' dispatcher 'do you want a trooper or a coroner and a trooper, we're running a special this week'. Yea, he was busting my chops but then we know each other... the lug nut loosener is back in jail now, heard thru the grapevine he got ventilated with some 12 ga rock salt..

We had two new yorkers rob a bank here a few years ago, 15+ anyway, they picked opening day of deer season, noon time, bank next to a diner with 50+ hunters eating lunch and two troopers doing the same... troopers used a bull horn when they came out 'don't be stupid twice'.... 25 pickups with rifles across the hoods and beds... [and the troopers were probably sweating bullets hoping nobody gets trigger happy]

Though it can be interesting, we do have some real wacko's around here and their stuff makes the front page like the mother/son team that knocked off the step father and then the sons girlfriend and baby. Mostly though it's the out of staters from NY and NJ plus up from philly...

[XgeekstarX]

about a year ago quite a few uhh "lower class" families moved in and it went to hell for a while. my stepdad got his stereo stolen out of his car, my sister got her car broken into. since then they've all moved out or gotten evicted and it's returned to normal.

[Rev Den]

Naperville, Illinois, which WAS one of if not the best towns in the US to raise a kid, had to make a law for urinating on the sidewalk and makes thousands of dollars off of fines written for people who break it and has among the highest DUI arrests in the county too. Thanks to all the low life dirtballs that moved in and ruined it for the people who were born and raised there.

Fixed it for you.

BTW - I live in an town where 3 kids hanging out on the courner is a "gang" and they are treated as such. :twak:

Rev

[jimgrms]

live in highlands ranch most times don't even lock doors but moved from san bernardino ca where i was shot while taking a shower by a drive by shooter ,who was given probation because he was a troubled child

[jmowens]

Raised in Elkmont, AL (Pop 525 - no, I'm not kidding) - the town population doubled during the day if school was in session - the Elkmont High School (Kindergarten - 12th grade) had around 1000 students.
Now, I've moved to the big city - Hazel Green, AL. Unincorporated, but still larger than Elkmont. It's scary here in the big city. I usually take the keys outta my Jeep when I go to bed for the night, and we lock the doors to the house! The other night, the neighbor's dog crapped in the yard - getting kinda scary. I'll probably start making sure I always take the key out of the ignition when I go to bed at night...

[red91]

Fixed it for you.

BTW - I live in an town where 3 kids hanging out on the courner is a "gang" and they are treated as such. :twak:

Rev

The good 'ole days...when the kids hung around the nearest pinball machine becuase that, at the time, was modern technology.

And of course the town was small enough that EVERYONE knew my grand parents.

Funny thing...if I was up to no good...they called her at home so when I got there, she already knew.

The first couple of times it was creepy...then I figured it out.:D

[SCW]

well the new neighborhood is a hit. Lots of little kids for my kids to play with, and very few "trashy" looking places around.

We do have a local retarded kid though, he looks to be around 12-13yrs old (but maybe 5-10 and 200#) and spends his day pesting anyone he can find. Our fist day he came up to me and was asking if I liked fishing, turned out he was going though some of my boxes and found the fishing tackle. We kept asking if he could have some and when I figured out that he had been going through my stuff I got on his case a little. the next day he hauled off with my kids bike and the day after that he was tossing the neighbors stuff into my yard. He's better than a pit bull though-

[Beej]

I guess I won't consider my neighborhood bad anymore. Sheep farm next door and on the other side is a B&B owned by the nicest couple you could ever meet. Across the 25000 car-a-day street is a crazy retired lawyer. He's given up on us, but shakes his fist at anyone who comes to close to his place. Across the street is all waterfront, we have pretty nice views of trees in ths summer, but water in the winter. No sidewalk on our side so we never have any foot traffic. Anyone coming into our driveway is easily visible, so noone does. No breakins yet (knock on wood). I grew up in Alberta where I was always the worst neighbor on the street...
:D

[IcedXJ]

I live in a rich neighborhood and I am the only person in 1 mile that listens to metal and works on cars willingly. 10 min away is Redwood City, lots of gangs and shit like that. The damn Bay Area is full of gang violence, ghettoesness, and murders and rapes.