# Do you ever go to your city's "bad part of town"?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 29, 2019, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-go-to-your-citys-bad-part-of-town/842645 "2019-10-29T15:23:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-go-to-your-citys-bad-part-of-town/842645/81 "2019-11-12T16:10:14Z")

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I’m in San Antonio Texas, and the bad parts of town would be lower middle class in Atlanta. It’s diametrically opposite of where I am in the city, but other than being obviously economically disadvantaged (there’s quite a bank desert there, for example), it’s nothing like some of the ATL.

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**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-go-to-your-citys-bad-part-of-town/842645/82 "2019-11-12T22:36:31Z")

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My husband and I help gentrify a bad part of town.

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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-go-to-your-citys-bad-part-of-town/842645/83 "2019-11-13T22:25:12Z")

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> [@Aspidistra](#):
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> I had to look up crime stats to figure out what the “bad part of town” might be. Looks like by most metrics (I think ‘serious assault rates’ is the best one) it’s the one in between my house, University, and my kids school, that I cycle through every day. **Kambukta’s** former stomping ground (I believe?) of Fitzroy - one of those places you have to mortgage your firstborn to be able to afford to buy a house there.
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> The suburbs that have a \*reputation \*for being ‘rough’ these days are mostly on the city fringe, and I don’t have reason to get out there usually (also, there’s a hell of a lot of fringe, and only really tiny pockets of ‘rough’)

I tell people that visiting Melbourne is like visiting the suburbs. Even the bad parts of our town are still suburban… I’ve lived in Fitzroy (burglary), Carlton (burglary), West Melbourne (burglary), North Melbourne (burglary), all inner-city areas, and had to put up with residents complaining about the provision of social services (attracts bad people!), but the house breaking was always when no one was home. When I talk to people, it’s the people who live in Pakenham and Frankston (outer suburbs) who worry about home invasions.

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