The northern part of Seoul is definitely considered sketchier than the southern part, although even the rougher neighborhoods seem like a walk in the park compared to some parts of Chicago’s South Side.
Where I grew up in West Texas, it was rather segregated. The north side was Hispanic and poor. The east side was for blacks. Whites everywhere else.
Hmm. I was all set to post the lyrics to the mawkish Anne Murray song, “Little Good News”, which for reasons I shudder to contemplate, I still partially remember. For a couple of decades, I remembered the lyric as “Nobody robbed a liquor store on the north side of town.” I had intended to use that to show that the north sides of towns get some musical notice, Jim Croce notwithstanding. A googling, however, informs me that the lyric is “Nobody robbed a liquor store on the lower part of town.” I’ll be. I guess living in a city where the north side was the bad side twisted my memory of the song.
Champaign, IL has a pretty rough north side (except now all the strip malls & big box stores are even farther north than that).
Nashville’s Bordeaux area is on the north-ish side of town. It has a couple of public housing projects and a nasty crime problem. Unfortunately, it’s not the only area here like that.
Lexington, Kentucky’s north side qualifies here too.
The Northside of Jacksonville, FL is pretty rough.
I haven’t lived there in a while, but anyone care to comment on Minneapolis?
This is true, but doesn’t paint the whole picture. Compared with other cities I’ve lived in or near Baltimore is the only one where small “rough” neighborhoods are scattered all over the city, some backed right up to the most exclusive neighborhoods.
I was gonna’ say that. When I was in my late teens I lived on the north side. I got burglarized three times in the space of one year and my motorcycle got stolen (as did my girlfriend’s three pygmy goats), but the up side was that it was always easy to score weed.
Reno, NV. Sun Valley (which is north of the city) and “the North Valleys” (Lemmon and Golden) are considered a bit rougher and poorer than the rest.
Louisville, Kentucky is basically like this. Generally speaking, things get worse from east to west and from south to north. There are of course multiple execeptions, but this is the general trend. The northwest quadrant, generally refered to as the “West End” is the worst of the bunch. This is the area that mothers from the southern suburbs don’t allow their white children (it’s a very predominantly black area in a suprisingly segregated city). With that said, Louisville is fairly low crime for a city of it’s size. You’re going to find higher crime areas in any city that large. As a saltine white whitey, I’ve driven through the area a few times and never felt threatened, but I was always aware that I could be in danger if I were to walk down the streets alone at night in gang colors.
Hmmm, where? :dubious: I grew up just north of Charlotte in the '80s and '90s until 2003, and my in-laws still live in north Charlotte to this day; I was just there visiting over the holidays. The only place I can think of that you might be referring to is slightly north of Trade on Tryon, maybe, but that’s still very much central Charlotte, not north.
Visalia, California. A nice little town but the section 8 housing and such is on the north side.
Palm Springs. Yes, we have bad neighborhoods here, and the high-crime area seems to be north of downtown. If you count nearby cities, then Desert Hot Springs would definitely be considered the most dangerous place to live here in the Coachella Valley area.
Yep,
North Minneapolis is the rougher side of town. I have had 2 attempted muggings directed my way in Minneapolis, but both of those were right downtown on Hennepin.
With changing demographics, it’s hard to state categorically exactly where the ‘rough’ sides of towns/cities are anymore.
For example, in Melbourne, the northern suburbs were once notorious as crime-ridden working-and-underclass areas, but in recent years have become more gentrified with property prices skyrocketting and the poor/marginalised getting pushed further and further out into the suburban fringes.
It used to be an indicator of social classism that one could name their address as ‘south’ of the Yarra River (rich and genteel) or ‘north’ (poor and likely of criminal ancestry).
While some vestiges of this geographic apartheid still remain (especially for those old blue bloods who live south of the Yarra), for the most part they have gone westward. 
Omaha.
North Portland (Oregon) is the roughest/poorest part of town, but it’s really not that rough compared to most other cities. I am a third generation North Portlander.