What is a sign you're in a bad neighborhood?

[u/Beautiful_Reply2172]

[u/CertainTiger4273]

The gas station cashier stands behind bullet proof glass 😜

[u/Interesting_Tea5715 → u/CertainTiger4273]

This. I once stopped for gas and they just had a slide out droor outside.

The guy looked at me and said "you don't belong here, keep on driving if you can white boy". I took his advice and left 😂

[u/wikipediabrown007 → u/Interesting_Tea5715]

>droor

Drawer or door?

[u/Interesting_Tea5715 → u/wikipediabrown007]

My bad.

Supposed to be drawer. It's Friday, I'm tired as fuck.

[u/SpyHunterBG → u/Interesting_Tea5715]

Had an old coworker in the "north side" of the city doing some evening electrical work. Company van, clear as day there's equipment on it, so dudes packing heat on these night jobs. Big white Irish guy. Says a guy in a long peacoat and wide brim fedora walks up to him when they stop for gas, starts thinking "we'll shit here we go". Guy opens the coat - PD badge. Tells him "you fellas are the wrong color to be here this time of night. Pay at the pump and get outta here." Put like 3 gallons in the van and dipped.

[u/marchant26 → u/SpyHunterBG]

We were on Grateful Dead tour driving into Chicago. Got off at an exit to get gas. We definitely stuck out as being white hippies. All eyes on us for sure. A few dudes start walking up on us. I'm thinking "oh, fuck." We were literally out of gas so we really didn't have a choice. Just as they approach and start to say something a CPD car comes rolling into the lot. He gets out and says "what the fuck is wrong with you stopping here? Fill up and get the fuck back on the highway. I've been saving you people's asses all night." We definitely followed his advice.

[u/BrothelWaffles → u/SpyHunterBG]

...did your coworker meet Dick Tracy?

[u/Yibblets → u/SpyHunterBG]

There is a gas station in my city,(New Orleans) that we call "the murder gas station," cheap gas, expensive lesson.

[u/oldschoolvegas → u/CertainTiger4273]

What about when the McDonald's cashier is behind bullet proof glass?

[u/CFCentral → u/oldschoolvegas]

Can’t say I’ve seen that one before. Those exist?

[u/Ghost17088 → u/CFCentral]

I’ve seen it at a Popeye’s chicken. Ad that is how you know it’s going to absolutely slap. There’s one I go by on the way home from the airport like this, and I stop there if I’ve been craving it because I know it’s always amazing. 

[u/mindlessfreak30 → u/CertainTiger4273]

I went to a gas station once and there was a guy dressed in security outfit and I assumed he was in checkout line so I was going to let him go. He waved me on and it clicked, oh he's here working to protect the store...I was instantly like shit I gotta get out of this neighborhood.

[u/InertEyes]

Many check cashing places.
Many liquor stores.
Grown men on child bicycles.
You see the same men on the street all day every day

[u/AutumnAllegro → u/InertEyes]

Liquor store cashier behind glass

[u/juneXgloom → u/AutumnAllegro]

Our local Domino's cashier is behind glass lol

[u/EnragedMoose → u/InertEyes]

Boost Mobile... Usually some Rainbow built 30 years ago.

[u/emelecfan2048 → u/EnragedMoose]

The Rainbow is big.

[u/Loud_Warning_5211 → u/InertEyes]

If you see grown men on child bicycles you almost always also see them awake between 2 and 5am with flashlights going through trash or tinkering with said bikes

[u/Cream_Machine98 → u/InertEyes]

I was in Houston for first time ever. We are a block away from where we are staying and I look out the car window and say to friends "I love seeing a rent a center, pawn shop, and boost mobile all in the same plaza.

There was a random mattress on the corner of the street we stayed on too

[u/1981denver → u/Cream_Machine98]

Houston....land of no zoning laws

[u/MegaGrimer → u/InertEyes]

It’s like that Dave Chappell joke about his driver taking him to the hood. “Gun store, gun store, liquor store, gun store. Where the fuck you taking me?”

[u/bigmamachuddies → u/InertEyes]

Pawn shops

[u/Pretty-Stress-904 → u/bigmamachuddies]

yeah that is right

[u/fakeprofile21 → u/InertEyes]

Title pawn and ball bondsmen.

[u/lyra1227 → u/InertEyes]

+1 check cashing

Pawn shops

[u/Stunning-Bread7196]

1)Groups of grown men in their 20’s and 30’s sitting on porches during prime. work hours.
2) litter and trash
3) boarded up houses

[u/CrotalusHorridus → u/Stunning-Bread7196]

Disheveled grown men slowly riding around during work hours on kid sized bikes

[u/dishwab → u/CrotalusHorridus]

Big dude on a small bmx bike is a huge tell

[u/system0101 → u/dishwab]

Big Deebo energy

[u/GloomyCardiologist16 → u/system0101]

I got mind control over Deebo. He be like, 'Shut up.' I be quiet. But when he leaves? I be talking again

[u/Exes_And_Excess → u/CrotalusHorridus]

I come from a place like that. Sometimes you'll see different dudes riding the same bike from day to day. Sometimes with another bike over their shoulder. Bicycle chop shops are big around here. With that comes a lot of rattle can paint theft at hardware and auto stores.

[u/TaterTot0809 → u/CrotalusHorridus]

I get the sitting on porches part but what's the bike part and why do they do that

[u/EntireWeb5156 → u/TaterTot0809]

They lost their license to drive due to dui/ car is gone due to accidents, or sold for drugs, so they can only get around on a bike. Not sure why it’s usually a little bike though. Maybe they stole it from a kid.

[u/CrotalusHorridus → u/EntireWeb5156]

Exactly because it’s stolen.

[u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES → u/CrotalusHorridus]

When I was in 5th grade my bike was stolen from right in front of me on the school yard. Was 20 feet away from it playing basketball when some dude ran around the corner out of nowhere and hopped on it and rode away. Stole my first bmx bike:(

Certainly left a bad taste in my mouth. As an adult now I can't imagine doing that to a kid.

[u/shittymcduck → u/Stunning-Bread7196]

I’ve always said if you see a lot of people walking around in the middle of the day it’s either a really bad area or a really nice area.

[u/someguy7710 → u/shittymcduck]

Waaay back in the day, I remember doing some deliveries in DC. People just hanging out at like 1pm drinking 40s on a weekday. Felt like I was in the movie Friday.

[u/NoContextCarl → u/Stunning-Bread7196]

This. 

Especially the dudes just hanging out on porches and yards. All day. All night. You turn onto the street and like a dozen or so heads swivel and start staring. 

[u/Taint__Whisperer → u/NoContextCarl]

That sounds creepy!! I guess I have always lived in the better parts of the Vegas Valley for 20 years. I have never noticed that. I have seen houses with a couple maybe older dudes in their middle years would be hanging out in lawn chairs in shitty trashy yards.

For real sounds creepy!

[u/Cloaked42m → u/Taint__Whisperer]

If you live there, those are the people you introduce yourself to so they know you aren't police or with another group.

Preferably by getting a neighbor to vouch for you.

[u/applebottoms77 → u/Stunning-Bread7196]

An older guy pointed this out to me when I was a kid in one of America’s more notorious hoods that was and is just a straight up drug zone. He said look at all those guys on the street they’re not your age, they’re more like your dad’s age. What do you think they’re all just standing on a corner in the middle of the afternoon for? Just hanging out by every other stop sign for fun?

That question opened my eyes as a kid lol. I knew the answer, I just hadn’t thought about it that way. To this day I think dudes just hanging by the corners and every convenience store is the one reliable sign you’re in a rough ass neighborhood. Some are a lot more dangerous than others though. There’s a difference between a down and out neighborhood with mostly just relatively chill unemployed people hangin out and a neighborhood that turns into a goddamn Walmart of sex and drugs for sale.

[u/SoftServeMonk → u/applebottoms77]

Okay so why do they hang out by convenience stores? I pass a liquor store in the South Side of Chicago often and a group of mostly men are always posted up by it, and sometimes on lawn chairs. A lot of cars drive through and pause and talk to them, and I thought it might be drugs but I wasn’t sure. Am I just super naive? It would make sense why they always stare at me like “who is this little white woman and why is she here?” Hahaha

[u/Inside_Dimension2319 → u/Stunning-Bread7196]

I was in a sketchy area of San Juan, PR driving down a one-lane road through a neighborhood where dudes were doing exactly that; hanging out listening to music and drinking during a weekday. Another car started coming towards me so I slowed, and immediately these guys got up and surrounded my car. Now I’m from Detroit so I already clocked them before they got up and was already looking for the best way to escape the situation. 

Right as I popped it into reverse, they yelled at me in Spanish, folded my car windows in, and guided me so me and the other car could pass each other on the one lane road. Then sat back down and started drinking again. I had to explain to my travelling partner that was usually a bad sign in a neighborhood like that.

[u/TightInvestment330 → u/Inside_Dimension2319]

I would’ve been scared too, especially when they all got up at once. The fact that they were actually just helping makes it even crazier.

[u/schnebly5 → u/Stunning-Bread7196]

Oh hey, it’s baltimore

[u/Redneck_By_Default → u/Stunning-Bread7196]

You just described about 75% of eastern NC.

[u/LoLMagix → u/Stunning-Bread7196]

Job took me all around the country and I’ve been to Compton and South Chicago, and never felt it was that bad. But I parked my car once on the side of the street to take a work call in Niagara Falls, NY and noticed all of these for the first time together and had to get back on the road and join the call later from a few miles down the road.

[u/itsonlyastrongbuzz → u/Stunning-Bread7196]

Great list. I’d add presence of of pawn shops, check cashing places, and liquor stores.

[u/seajem]

Chris Rock said in a recent special that you can tell by who is not working:

“If you’re in any neighborhood in America, at 12:15 in the afternoon on a Wednesday, and you see women with sweatpants on coming out the gym, pushing babies, riding bikes, having brunch, going to SoulCycle, chances are you’re in a nice neighborhood.

If you’re in any neighborhood in America, at 12:15 in the afternoon on a Wednesday, and you see men in sweatpants, smoking cigarettes, hanging with their boys, lifting weights in the yard, riding children’s bicycles as their actual transportation, then you are in danger.”

[u/oddicicle → u/seajem]

I live in LA and a lot of people either wfh (myself included) or are unemployed, and you will always see a line wrapped around the block for a popular coffee shop or pop-up, usually in weho or ktown. Doesn’t matter if it’s a weekday or weekend. And the people in line always wonder, “does no one in this city work?” LOL.

[u/mezzoey → u/oddicicle]

So many gig workers! We rotate who’s working and who’s able to line up for coffee lol

[u/Derantasaurus → u/seajem]

Recent? Fuck. Im getting old

[u/Mncdk → u/Derantasaurus]

3 years ago means you're getting old? :D

Chris Rock has been making specials since the mid-90s. Chris is getting old. :P

[u/bassman314]

Very little care given to landscaping, etc. Cars are left to rot.

I’ve been in poor but safe neighborhoods. You can tell, because the cars are older, but well-maintained. Yards are maintained and not kept wild. Sidewalks and driveways might have a few cracks, but they are clean.

[u/seicar → u/bassman314]

Might not have much, but much pride in what we have.

[u/Good-Roll427 → u/seicar]

"Hey, I'm not braggin' or complainin', Just talkin' to myself man to man. This ole' mental fat I'm chewin' didn't take alot of doin'. But I take alot of pride in what I am." - Merle Haggard

[u/CMyselfOut → u/bassman314]

Absolutely a sign things are turning. Doesn’t have to be a manicured garden but when the 2 foot stretch of mulch has weeds as high as the windows, you’re headed for the signs others have mentioned.

[u/Fancy_Introduction60 → u/bassman314]

Sounds like the place I grew up.

[u/anon202437 → u/Fancy_Introduction60]

That’s a place I can respect.

[u/SanchoPandas → u/anon202437]

It’s plenty good enough and often comes with some level of community unity.

[u/Fuck_it_ → u/bassman314]

This is very true. I lifeguarded in a town with a wide variety of income. You could tell the neighborhood, and more specifically the street/house based on exactly this. Newer high school pool with lots of big fancy houses? Nice. You'll have a lot of snotty kids who buy a lot of the expensive candy bars. Community pool with big weeds across the street and random guys prowl those houses? There will be some fights there. You might have to call the police. Usually the kids just want to swim and actually listen better than the rich neighborhoods (except for that one group of kids. If you lifeguarded, you know).

[u/RumHamComesback → u/Fuck_it_]

"Respect" is a huge thing amongst those people because it's one of the few things they have in life. Parents in rough neighborhoods (that don't get into shady shit) try to instill that in their kids hence the listening.

[u/Weekly_Welder8784 → u/bassman314]

Rewild for the bees and the butterflies and the fireflies. A perfect lawn looks pretty though

[u/Zealousideal-Gap-749]

Idk if I live in a bad neighborhood but every time some middle age women end up here they clutch onto their purse. It's so annoying when they do this because they won't let go noatter how hard I pull.

[u/paisley716 → u/Zealousideal-Gap-749]

This cracked me up!! Thanks

[u/Posture_Chk]

Bars on the windows

[u/sothisis_kaseyyy → u/Posture_Chk]

I used to work at a place where the garbage cans were chained to the window bars...

[u/Posture_Chk → u/sothisis_kaseyyy]

Wtf lol

[u/Sinister_JaY → u/Posture_Chk]

"Bunch of savages in this town." Randall-

[u/JLMaverick → u/Posture_Chk]

There’s levels. Bars on the first floor you’re generally fine, just keep it moving and move with a purpose. If everyone has on the second floor windows you better be moving tf out of there.

[u/Mikeavelli → u/Posture_Chk]

I was on travel to Alabama a few years ago, and looked up the best barbecue in the area. The restaraunt turned out to be a converted gas station with bars on all the windows, in a neighborhood where bars on the windows was the norm.

Everything turned out fine and it really was the best goddamn bbq I've ever had.

[u/Deadleggg → u/Mikeavelli]

Rent is cheaper in areas that are rougher. Easier to start a restaurant there.

[u/Balmerhippie → u/Posture_Chk]

When i lived in the Bay Area i thought bars meant poverty. When I moved to Baltimore I realized that po folk couldnt afford bars.

[u/ShabbyDoo → u/Posture_Chk]

I've sometimes observed these to be a trailing indicator of crime levels. People don't bother removing their bars when their neighborhood improves.

[u/anormalgeek → u/Posture_Chk]

Bars on ALL of the windows.

[u/zlthourn → u/Posture_Chk]

or you're in spain

[u/PilotGuy701]

Back in the 1990s I went to my grandfather’s old neighborhood in Newark New Jersey. My great aunt insisted we walk down the street to a place called Dicky D’s.

There was a cop car, with its wheels stolen, on blocks in front of the pizza place.

And my aunt was right, the pizza was really good.

[u/Any-Worldliness-679]

Pawn brokers, bail bond shops, payday loan shops

[u/lumpialarry → u/Any-Worldliness-679]

Churches in the strip malls where instead of a real sign they have a banner with the picture of the pastor and his wife.

[u/Together-We-Stand-A1]

When someone breaks the law right in front of a cop and the officer decides it isn't worth it to engage.

[u/SuperBoysenberry5673]

When the restaurants are named what they sell instead of actual names

Pizza and Chicken

[u/ChiefRalphyWiggum → u/SuperBoysenberry5673]

But you know that spot had some of the best pizza and chicken you’ll ever find

[u/KeekatLove → u/SuperBoysenberry5673]

I don’t know why this makes me giggle. And hungry.

[u/2020FXLRS]

Baby on the corner selling weed

[u/Ozamataz-Buckshank69 → u/2020FXLRS]

He’s got kids to feed

[u/CharlieJeaneGipson → u/2020FXLRS]

Hey baby!

[u/SweatyInBed → u/CharlieJeaneGipson]

Baby! Go home it’s 3 o’clock in the morning!

[u/hereforpopcornru → u/SweatyInBed]

Fuck you, I've got kids to feed!

[u/Scoob8877]

As Chris Rock might say, when you find yourself on Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Because the man will only give that name to the worst street in town.

[u/AmysSweaters → u/Scoob8877]

True in my city. The most muggings happen there. Desolate at  night. Has social services, mental health, and addiction recovery services all within the same two blocks. 

[u/yougotastinkybooty → u/Scoob8877]

yup. true in every town I been in. including my own 😭

[u/rognabologna → u/Scoob8877]

The closest one to me is essentially the driveway to our state capitol building. It’s only like a quarter of a mile long. 

[u/GoatLegRedux → u/Scoob8877]

Definitely not true in San Francisco. MLK runs through the nicest park in town. It’s beautiful.

Oakland is a bit different, but not as bad as one might expect for Oakland.

[u/Bertie_McGee → u/[deleted]]

Playing the guessing game: fireworks or gunshots?

[u/whatsthemathers → u/Bertie_McGee]

I used to be able to lie to myself and always say it was fireworks.

Then I got a dog that is scared of fireworks, but not gunshots....he can tell the difference, so now there is no guessing or lying about what caused the booms.

[u/Muted-Doctor8925 → u/whatsthemathers]

Your dog is a straight up G

[u/Fabulous_Clothes_726 → u/[deleted]]

Depends. In the city/suburbs, gun shots are bad. I rural/country, gun shots are neighbors having fun or hunting.

[u/TurtleDump23 → u/Fabulous_Clothes_726]

I live near a gun range. Shots fired during daylights hours are good. Shots fired at night would cause concern.

[u/Interesting_Tea5715 → u/[deleted]]

Fireworks all year long.

[u/SmoochTalk]

From the late great Rodney Dangerfield:

“I’ll tell ya I live in the only neighborhood, when I plan my budget I allow for holdup money.”

“The first day I moved in I asked a cop how long a walk to the subway? He said I don’t know no one ever made it.”

“In my neighborhood there’s nothing but killings out there. I went out and bought a water bed, there was a guy at the bottom of it.”

[u/ScorpionX-123 → u/SmoochTalk]

"I get no respect!" *adjusts tie*

[u/cgulash]

I grew up down the road from a combination Barbershop/Gun Store/Junk Yard. So that's my barometer for how much a place sucks.

[u/theonewhoknockwurst → u/cgulash]

If in opened a barbershop/gun shop it would be called Locks and Glocks

[u/twenafeesh → u/cgulash]

I thought they usually just called that a pawn shop

[u/mbklein → u/twenafeesh]

You really want a haircut someone else pawned?

[u/aj0457]

When Domino's won't deliver to your house.

[u/Ok-Breakfast-7400]

When you see someone either knocked out or passed out near the entrance of a convenience store and everyone just walks by or over him like it happens everyday.

Edit: Another option is if the place you get your egg sandwich in the morning also sells dildos and bongs.

[u/Alternative-City5799]

Security at your local McDonald’s

[u/Wonderful-Power9161]

The signs posted as you come into town:

"This is a GANG-FREE community!"

. . .

. . .

. . .

...and the signs are tagged with gang graffiti...

[u/TheArchitect_7]

Gun store, liquor store, gun store, liquor store…where the hell you taking me!!?

[u/Gigaton → u/TheArchitect_7]

Time to schedule the colonoscopy if you know this comedy special.

[u/batai2368 → u/TheArchitect_7]

HEY BABY! Go home!!

[u/Nobody_Super_Famous]

Payday loan, pawn shop, and smoke shop in the same strip mall, and all the parking lot lights are blue.

[u/44035]

When there's a couch on the lawn

[u/NefariousAntiomorph → u/44035]

I dunno, Morgantown WV isn’t that bad. Plus those couches are often on fire to boot!

[u/AndyVanSlyke → u/NefariousAntiomorph]

Maybe one day WVU will win another game worth burning them for

[u/vodka_twinkie]

Grown men randomly loitering in small groups during normal work hours

[u/beaner69]

When you see, “No copper pipes” spray painted on the front of the house.

[u/jigglyjellly]

Lots of payday loan places

[u/STUBOING]

A closed down Church's chicken .

[u/DaadJowk → u/STUBOING]

Or an active, thriving Church’s Chicken

[u/Optimal_Savings5873 → u/DaadJowk]

An even worse sign. Leave if your mom doesn't live nearby.

[u/Ass_feldspar]

The dirtier the entrance to Dollar G eneral is, the worse the neighborhood

[u/Raven_Strange]

The amount of liquor stores, dollar stores, and discount mobile device retailers in the area (like BOOST Mobile).

[u/Joba7474]

Nobody walking their pets or jogging

[u/Tremulant21]

Before I actually knew what the bad streets were in Albany I had a black friend I worked with at Staples that lived on one of those streets.

He would always say just drop me off here dude. Do not come down this road ever. And I always thought he was bullshitting until 15 years later when I realized. Yes, that is where everybody goes to buy crack.

[u/Dry_Marsupial_4504]

security bars on everyone's windows

[u/DogboneHitez → u/Dry_Marsupial_4504]

Especially on the FRONT windows and door.

[u/Famous_Attention5861]

Liquor store on every corner but no grocery stores.

[u/GalaxyPowderedCat → u/Famous_Attention5861]

This one is a good but forgotten one.

My therapist had a hard time understanding why I didn't have a coffee shop to have therapy while I was doing online therapy.

I swear to you, there are like two bakeries on my neighbourhood and the rest are houses and bars.

Every food and drink place is a bar. There are not even restaurants unless it's a small fast food place.

[u/octobereighth → u/GalaxyPowderedCat]

Not really the point of this thread I know, but did your therapist really expect you to have your sessions in public at a coffee shop? I close the door to my bedroom during online therapy when I'm home alone, lol. I've done it in my (parked) car a couple of times and felt super self-conscious. I couldn't imagine doing anything productive with a therapist in public.

[u/pkks072486]

Fast food drive thru has announcement saying panhandlers will be removed from premises and fined or jailed.

Reverse profiling - pulling over the ethnicity/races that aren't as common in that city, or pulling over people from other towns especially the suburbs.

Strip clubs.

That's my experience I had when I worked in the hood at a drug rehab while I live 20 mins away in the burbs.

[u/R-Voodoo → u/pkks072486]

I got pulled over in Detroit for stopping at a traffic light while being white. It was late, I was lost, the nice officer just asked me what the fuck I was doing, and then asked me to please leave. Late 90s early 2000s.

[u/nothingbutmistakes]

Cars parked on the front lawns, cars parked in driveways but still completely blocking the sidewalk.

Pawn shops “WE BUY GOLD” Bail bond storefronts

[u/ssxhoell1 → u/nothingbutmistakes]

That's any mexican neighborhood tho because every one of the men think they're a mechanic/car flipper at some point inevitably

[u/Reasonable_Manner817 → u/ssxhoell1]

Ah. Well then I guess the big mystery is, who gathered all those remarkably different cultures together and taught them all how to park their cars on their lawns?

[u/iluvsporks]

In LA the basic measurement is how far away from a Trader Joe's are you.

[u/Flyin_Triangle]

If women are out and about in the middle of the day not working, you’re in a good neighborhood. If men are out in the middle of the day not working, you’re in a bad neighborhood

[u/BeanserSoyze → u/Flyin_Triangle]

This is the grey tracksuits rule right

[u/live_for_coffee]

When you see a church outreach diversion center, it's time to run.

[u/Sunset_Winds]

Shopping carts left on the sidewalk, when you are miles from the nearest supermarket.

[u/RationalReturns]

Someone riding your bike down the road

[u/Milka_Coca]

Unatural silence where no children are playing outside 

[u/CallingAllShawns → u/Milka_Coca]

that happens to me and it’s just because 80% of my neighborhood is full of old people.

[u/dropkickoz → u/CallingAllShawns]

They dead.

[u/bachelorsinlurking → u/Milka_Coca]

I was gonna say this! I never realized how much I missed the sound of people outside until I moved back into a neighborhood that had kids playing after years of dead silence.

[u/pale_and_soft → u/Milka_Coca]

Yeah, when a whole neighborhood feels weirdly empty, something just feels off.

[u/Fuzzy_nnuts]

Groups of women home during the day = good neighborhood

Groups of men home during the day = bad neighborhood

Also, grown men riding children’s bikes is another dead giveaway.

Good luck out there!

[u/Likely_Bebop2827]

Pitbulls roaming in the wild.

[u/Dissidence802 → u/Likely_Bebop2827]

Somebody should probably catch him, he's got a tour coming up with Lil Jon.

[u/tele_ave]

I don’t know where other people live but in my part of the Midwest gun shops are more common in outer suburbs and rural areas.

My answer to this question is smoke shops, payday lenders, and sus gas stations.

[u/GSwarr33]

Helicopters overhead, multiple nights per week. Source: lived in south central LA in college

[u/How_that_convo_went]

Pay as you go cell phone stores. Boost, Metro, Cricket…

[u/uniqueusername316]

People walk down the middle of the street because the sidewalk is too dangerous.

[u/Katnis85]

No women walking around after dark. Women being very aware of their surroundings during the day.

[u/Ok-Life-566]

Cars are nicer than the houses

[u/daveashaw]

Fentanyl fold is the latest dance craze.

[u/Slow_Way7862]

drive through and see no woman walking around.

[u/de-motivator1000 → u/Slow_Way7862]

Conversely, I've told my wife this: a sign of a bad neighborhood is seeing a bunch of adult males hanging around outside on a workday.

[u/catladywithallergies]

A very noticeable lack of green spaces/trees and a lot of highway infrastructure.

[u/Rare-Lawfulness-7492]

According to Dave chapelle babies out late at night

[u/StrangeDrop7201]

Tumbleweaves.

[u/fieroloki]

Waffle house is closed

[u/tider06 → u/fieroloki]

That's not a bad neighborhood, that means the end times are near.

[u/Bravely_Default]

Gun store, gun store, liquor store.

[u/77brightside77 → u/Bravely_Default]

HEY BABY!

[u/Klutzy_Strike → u/77brightside77]

I’m selling weed!

[u/kingsfan52 → u/Bravely_Default]

WHERE ARE YOU TAKING ME?!!!

[u/Ozamataz-Buckshank69 → u/Bravely_Default]

Crackhead goes running across the street

tsktktktkkt

[u/Chicago1871 → u/Bravely_Default]

Forgot the storefront churches

[u/jharg93 → u/Bravely_Default]

A baby standing on the corner at 3 AM

[u/Ginger630]

Bars on the windows of houses. Crack pipes in the streets.

[u/kt3pr0tEq]

Burnt out buildings, boarded up buildings with condensed signs on them.

[u/Commercial-Topic8832]

Litter and dog shit everywhere

[u/InboxMeYourSpacePics]

The gas station has barriers for the cashier.

[u/nbalivemobileguy]

The street sign that says “George Washington and Martin Luther King Blvd”

[u/1o4xGDDEpR4xIPapc]

Martin Luther King Blvd

[u/redredredIT1234]

Confederate flags hanging from windows

[u/imalurkernotaposter → u/redredredIT1234]

Really? Lots of houses have white curtains.

[u/Disastrous-Fig-9830]

I remember stopping for directions at the police department in a really bad neighborhood - they had to buzz you in.😳😬

[u/Amazing-Artichoke330]

Garbage on the street.

[u/mitchsn]

Too many Pawn shops and liquor stores

[u/Disdatndathird]

Pawn shop, Title loan, Rent-a-center

[u/Pusheen-buttons]

Bars on the house windows. Either makes you feel safe they're there or not safe that they are needed at all

[u/Dangerous--Judgment]

Bars on the windows.

[u/kay_el_eff]

Martin Luther King Blvd

[u/Big_Acanthisitta1585]

When people who live there constantly warn you about which streets to avoid, especially after dark.

[u/bigbagofspam]

If I can afford the rent.

[u/M1thr4nd1r7]

Grown men riding childrens bikes

[u/Workingclassherois]

When the teller at the gas station is behind thick bulletproof glass, tells you never to come back especially at night because you are too white and doesn’t want you to go back to your car until he thinks it’s safe. Yes, it happened when my traveling friend had his turn driving and I told him “Not here. This is not a good place to get gas”. He didn’t listen. We were ok though. Y’all try to be safe out there. Oh, this was in the USA and we were both normal guys, US citizens simply going to an automotive event in a nearby state. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/ditchdiggergirl]

When some big tough mean looking dudes come up to you and say “you know, you probably don’t want to be here by yourself. We’ll stick around and make sure no one messes with you, or if you want we can help you get that tire back on so you can head out faster.” Super nice guys, but even though I knew it wasn’t a great place to get a flat I didn’t realize I had to worry at 3 in the afternoon.

[u/LarryKubiac]

A grown man riding a child's bike.

[u/ThatPerson000]

Are you shoes hanging from telephone wires still a bad sign? I see it in okay places and I think it's just a coincidence there.

[u/alwaysnurse44]

When a patrol car is assigned there 24/7.

[u/oldschoolvegas]

Check cashing places, loan places up to $500, Metro PCS or pay as you go cellular places, laundromat, dollar stores. Tents. Cars with their windows down in hot climates.

[u/Kacer6]

Check cashing/payday loan signs

[u/Whitesox411]

Drug dealing on the corners

[u/Prize-Flamingo-336]

Dudes that should be at work that aren’t

[u/NWONewBern]

Strings of houses where the windows and doors have been boarded up with plywood