Why is it that the “east side” of a city seems to be the yucky part?

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by CutiePie2000
I think in Seattle, as you head in an easterly direction, there is a yucky pocket called "Factoria". But there is also Bellevue which is chi-chi and very nice. I don't know Seattle like a local though.

I'm also noticing that yucky neighbourhoods are quickly becoming gentrified and are getting turned into nice neighbourhoods, b/c people don't want to live too far out in the suburbs and would be closer to the city. Vancouver's Yaletown was yucky warehouses and yucky industrial land and it's all nice and 'purty' now.

Parkdale in Toronto is like that. The residents are trying to fix it up by welcoming new restaurants and art galleries (it's all arsty-farsty in Parkdale now) and driving out the hookers and the crack addicts. It's still pretty run down though.

[TheEpitome1920]

Originally posted by Private I
lol is Gary really that bad? I know that it has a large Serb descendant population, meaning it was most likely a coal mining town or something to that extent...

Poor Gary. I've heard a lotta people live in Gary or Hammond and commute to the city because its so cheap to live there.

In reference to Chicago's east side...I've live across from the lake on the south (South Shore) and north (Lincoln Park & Uptown) sides and never called it the east side. It's all good though.

[valkyrie]

Originally posted by Private I
lol is Gary really that bad? I know that it has a large Serb descendant population, meaning it was most likely a coal mining town or something to that extent...

The last time I drove through it, I thought I was going to vomit or die. The pollution is terrible and it smells like sulfur.

[SATX*APhi]

The actual physical east side in my hometown is a beach and the west and north sides are the "yucky" parts.

[Dionysus]

I've been to Chicago a few times but never had the chance to go to the beach.

Well, for my graduation present I was supposed to go back to Chicago last January and stay in a expensive hotel and the works. I delayed that trip for six months JUST SO I COULD GO TO THE BEACH AND SWIM IN THE LAKE. I've been to websites where pictures of the lake was sapphire blue and tons of people were swimming. So those were fake pictures or something? Say it isn't so. St. Louis does this all the time. Our post cards make the Mississippi river look soooo attractive, but it is really NASTY in person.

Hell, maybe I will go somewhere else this summer.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by Dionysus
I've been to Chicago a few times but never had the chance to go to the beach.

Well, for my graduation present I was supposed to go back to Chicago last January. I delayed that trip for six months JUST SO I COULD GO TO THE BEACH AND SWIM IN THE LAKE. I've been to websites where pictures of the lake was sapphire blue and tons of people were swimming. So those was a fake pictures or something? Say it isn't so. Hell, maybe I will go somewhere else this summer.

After your swim in the lake, take a dive into the chicago river.

-Rudey

[TheEpitome1920]

Originally posted by Dionysus
I've been to Chicago a few times but never had the chance to go to the beach.

Well, for my graduation present I was supposed to go back to Chicago last January and stay in a expensive hotel and the works. I delayed that trip for six months JUST SO I COULD GO TO THE BEACH AND SWIM IN THE LAKE. I've been to websites where pictures of the lake was sapphire blue and tons of people were swimming. So those were fake pictures or something? Say it isn't so. St. Louis does this all the time. Our post cards make the Mississippi river look soooo attractive, but it is really NASTY in person.

Hell, maybe I will go somewhere else this summer.

I've just seen too many kids release bodily waste in there. And when I lived up north the lake reeked of dead fish smell. So you won't catch me in that water.

[cashmoney]

In cities on the eastern coast of Florida the "east side" tends to usually be the higher end areas to live in being as they are closer to the beaches.

[Tom Earp]

Dont Cities when they were Plated begin at the Eatern Point of the Town?

Well, We are in The Burb Mode, lets move West?

Who Was The Dude that Said," Go West Young Man".

Oh, that was before Women Were Equal and could Vote.

Oh, who was the first person that said, Honey, Lets Move West into the Burbs?

[cashmoney]

Originally posted by Tom Earp
Who Was The Dude that Said," Go West Young Man".

That'd be Michael W Smith.

[Tom Earp]

Wrong!

[Taualumna]

Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
Parkdale in Toronto is like that. The residents are trying to fix it up by welcoming new restaurants and art galleries (it's all arsty-farsty in Parkdale now) and driving out the hookers and the crack addicts. It's still pretty run down though.

But lots of artsy-fartsy types like run-down.

[AznSAE]

southside is the yucky side. too much crime and grafitti.

[ZTAngel]

In South Florida, the East and South side of the city tend to be nicer. In Ft. Lauderdale for instance, the East side has all the nice homes and condominiums on Las Olas which is a really ritzy street in the downtown area.

In Orlando, there wasn't a "side" that was bad. There were just certain areas scattered around downtown (mainly in the southwest part of the city) that you don't go to at night! The East part of downtown is Thornton Park which is a really nice area with expensive homes. The eastern edge of Orlando has more of a suburban feel to it. UCF located there and an area called Waterford Lakes that has many upper-middle class families.

As for Atlanta, the eastern part is nice here with Buckhead being Northeast of the city. There are a lot of nice homes in Buckhead, especially along a street called West Paces Ferry where a bunch of HUGE mansions are located. The governor's mansion is along this road. The not-so-great part of Atlanta is located South of the city.

[DeltaSigStan]

East County San Diego is known as the redneck part of SD

Santee (Klantee), El Cajon, Lakeside, Mountain Empire, etc...