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* The outer half of the VIII. district of Budapest, [[Hungary]]. It's suspiciously similar to a jungle - a machete greatly increases your chances to survive.
* The North Praga district of Warsaw, [[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 [[Boston (useful notes)|Boston]] was this up until recently{{When}}. 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'''est '''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.
* Japan:
** [https://www.tofugu.com/japan/nishinari/ Nishinari Ward] is considered the slum of Osaka and the most dangerous place in Japan. Multiple riots took place there, and even now it remains infamous for strong [[Yakuza]] presence and the largest [[Red Light District]] in the nation. It is almost literally on the [[Wrong Side of the Tracks]] from much more upmarket Namba to the north.
** Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Tokyo, which you may have heard of from ''[[Gintama]]'' or the [[No Communities Were Harmed]] "Kamurocho" in ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza]]'', has long had an unsavoury reputation for sleaze and crime. Whether this remains true today or is just a stereotype that refuses to die is hotly debated.
* There are places in Singapore like Orchard Towers or certain parts of Geylang where it is an open secret that prostitution, which is officially illegal in the country, is quietly tolerated as long as no one rocks the boat.
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