Comments by "John h Palmer" (@johnhpalmer6098) on "TACOMA WASHINGTON MOST DANGEROUS HOODS" video.

  1. Hey nice! I live here, though not in the hoods you went to, like Hilltop, Lincoln, McKinley Hill and the Eastside. I live in what is known as the Central District, a mostly white working class area, that also happens to be very convenient to the freeway and the 6tth Ave business district. Agree with others down below that this town, which has been an industrial town in its past, and may still be in some ways, still reflects is past with a lot of blue collar/working class folks, middle to upper middle class and richer folks up in the north end but in the 80's, this town was riddled badly with mostly the Bloods and Crips that came up from California, invading Hilltop and I one evening while at school for evening classes at Bates downtown, saw a drug deal, out in the open on the corner by the main entrance to the school itself in I think fall of 1988. Tacoma as a whole is much better now than it used to be and for a very long time, I hated this place and so wanted to get out of this place, to quote the Animals. I eventually moved to Seattle in 1996, moved out in 2016 back here to buy my house in Central and have come to reconcile this town for what it is these days and have come to love it and appreciate what it has to offer. Through the print screen feature, Photoshop and zooming in greatly to barely read the street signs, I was able to find the Min Grocery you show in this video, thanks to Google Earth. :-) You went past East wise, an architectural salvage place and Portland Ave Nursery, been to both of those a couple of years ago. Agree, a lot of work needs to be done with the homeless, even Seattle has that bad now too.
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  2. Yep. When I worked at T-Mobile as a third party contractor a few years back, many of the people that worked for the company rarely got south of Seattle/Bellevue so really don't know much about anything south of Tukwilla. I'm a native of University Place, but know Tacoma proper quite well and now live here in the Central area. I think this stigma may still exist, but it's getting better here. Now to reduce some of the rights the nefarious souls seem to get and assist the tax paying base of residents more, it'd be a lot better. This is largely the fault of city Gov't but definitely agree, it's nothing like it was in the 80's.
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  3.  @politicaltroll8920  Except that I think that is outdated now. I live here. That was largely due to the paper mill that I think used to be along the waterfront.
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  4.  @BenjaminGessel  So did I.
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  5.  @juliemariemcintyre  Indeed, and before it became a city in the mid 90's, it was part of the county so when I lived there with my family, it had a Tacoma address so you were better off saying your from Tacoma or they had no idea about UP. Now, it's different thanks to being its own city.
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  6.  @GARTHURZILLA  Nope, 206 was complimented in 1947, 509 in 1957 when western Washington split with eastern Washington, then in the 1990's we got the 253. 360, 425 area codes, and now in 2017, 564, of which I just found out, and only for new numbers, I think throughout western Washington.
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  7.  @GARTHURZILLA  Um, noy quite. Edmonds is too far north to be in the 253 area code, it's likely 206 or 425.
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