Descriptions & Equivalents
- bad part of town
- bars on the windows
- boarded-up store fronts
- cars broken into on a regular basis
- cars parked on the lawn
- constantly approached by drug addicts asking for money
- crime-ridden
- dilapidated homes
- discarded shopping carts on the side of the road
- ghetto
- glut of “for sale” signs
- grass turned to thistle
- gunshots heard often
- high-crime area
- hookers on the corner
- hotspot for crime
- multiple groups of young people hanging out on porches and sidewalks
- notoriously seedy
- old boots thrown over telephone wire
- payday loan store on every corner
- pit bull chained up in the backyard
- potholes in the yard
- prostitutes seen coming and going
- ramshackle homes
- residents afraid to go outside at night
- rope clotheslines
- run-down strip malls
- scruffy backyards
- skid row
- street lights shot out
- the 'hood
- trailer parks
- trashy
- weedy lots
- windows shot out
- wrong side of the tracks
Neighborhood – Bad. A part of town that is dangerous. Michael avoided going into bad neighborhoods when he was out after dark.
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