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* North Minneapolis, nicknamed Murderapolis.
* Bunker Hill was this during the golden age of Los Angeles (abt. 1917-1963). Not even South Central comes close today.
* The outer half of the VIII. district of Budapest, [[Useful Notes/Hungary|Hungary]]. It's suspiciously similar to a jungle - a machete greatly increases your chances to survive.
* The North Praga district of Warsaw, [[Useful Notes/Poland|Poland]]. There's even an old saying "Jedziesz na Pragie, to weź pan lagie" ("If yer goin' to Praga, get a big stick, guv."). Before [[World War II]], Wola was this as well, but it slowly gentrified over the years.
* Chinatown in [[Useful Notes/Boston (useful notes)|Boston]] was this up until recently. At the time (the 1960s-1970s), Chinatown adjoined [[wikipedia:Combat Zone (Boston)|Boston's Combat Zone]], home to porno theaters and prostitutes. It was literally only one block from the Boston Common, the park at the heart of the city. Rising property values, the ability to watch porn at home, and the fact that the Chinese got sick of the bad reputation the area had, all led to its demise. It's now a perfectly nice light-commercial area.
* The "SWATS" (or Zone 4) in Southwest [[Atlanta]], Georgia, so called because it's in '''S'''outh'''w'''west '''At'''lanta, or because the SWAT team is always there. Quite a few rappers are from there, including T.I. and Big Boi.
* Take a look at "Several parts of Honolulu in ''[[Magnum, P.I.]]''." The most notorious of these several parts, at least until a wave of clean ups in the early 2000s, was Hotel Street in Chinatown. Long a red-light district catering to certain... desires... of sailors from neighboring Pearl Harbor, the area became very run down and was controlled by the Tongs and other organized crime syndicates, and it was not a place you went to at night if you valued your life, and it was a wise man who avoided it during the day as well. The area has, however, undergone a revitalization that has -- mostly -- reclaimed the area for decent society.
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