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Heading to Philadelphia. Need suggestions.

Duck Rodgers said:
But I think I'm like Vinny. If you tell me North Philly is a death trap, guess where I'm going? I haven't been to a hood yet where I felt like it should be off limits. Maybe if you were with children or something.
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One of my more recent finds here in town has been a bar called The Cork. It's in an area where most Angelenos, even native ones, would tell you to steer away. It's a black bar located on Adams and Crenshaw. I happened to be in the area dropping off some cushions to my furniture maker. Anyway, I was driving back home one day and was a little hungry so I decided to stop. It was probably one of the more welcoming bars in Los Angeles. So much so Ive been back a handful more times.

Don't live at the top of the bell curve of life.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
^^^^^^^ One of Green's best posts besides his occasional defenses of free markets. But I think I'm like Vinny. If you tell me North Philly is a death trap, guess where I'm going? I haven't been to a hood yet where I felt like it should be off limits. Maybe if you were with children or something.
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North Philly is legit dangerous. I went to school there. We had to be escorted from the school to our cars after dark. Twice, I came out of class in the afternoon, and there was literally chalk on the ground where someone had been shot. My car was broken into once, and stolen another time. If you do venture, realize that you are literally taking your life in your own hands. Literally.

The largest police force in Pennsylvania is Philly's. The second largest is Temple University's. North Philly is very poor and very dangerous. 70% of the 200,000+ live below the poverty line. Drugs are rampant. Don't say I didn't warn you. :)
 
fishonjazz said:
Sao paulo, brazil has a scary *** ghetto.
I had to pull over in a particularly rough part of the ghetto to puke (one of worst hangovers ever) and in the bathroom (if you could call it that) they just had a bunch of ripped up cardboard that they used as toilet paper (poor ********) and thier houses were just tin sheds with dirt floors and the was graffitti everywhere.

Lots of shady lookin people that I wouldn't want to meet in thier hood at night, but then again maybe I just thoughy is was scary due to the poverty

Could be that it was a perfectly safe place but I have just been conditioned to think that poor = dangerous.
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Haha...set the scene for this "bathroom" you puked in. Was it somebody's personal bathroom? A commerical space? A communal poop shed? Either way, I'm sure if anybody was around, they probably didn't love the fact that the American tourist was drive-by puking.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
Haha...set the scene for this "bathroom" you puked in. Was it somebody's personal bathroom? A commerical space? A communal poop shed? Either way, I'm sure if anybody was around, they probably didn't love the fact that the American tourist was drive-by puking.
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It was like a communal poop shed.
I puked all over sao paulo brazil.

I was working in a place called pocos de caldas brazil which is about 4 hours from sau paulo..
The last night in pocos we partied extremely hard, we met and became friends with a wealthy guy who owns a club there and we had vip service and partied all night.

Next day we had to make the 4 hour drive to the airport and my co workers wanted the driver to give us a tour of sau paulo before our flight.
So we drove all over sau paulo and I puke like 10 times, sometimes in bathrooms, sometimes just on the curb.

One of the worst drives/mornings of my life.... didn't help that the city itself smells like sewage.
Sau paulo is HUGE.... I believe its the 7th most populared city on the world... for perspective, I believe new york city is like 14th
 
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