Comments by "May Avenue Misfit" (@mayavenuemisfit814) on "ERIE PENNSYLVANIA HOODS" video.

  1. For what it's worth, I don't think Franklin Terrace is all that bad of an area. I seldom hear anything on the news about crime or other incidents taking place over there. And the few times I've driven past it lately, it looks like the people who live there take care of their community. It's definitely not something that comes to mind when I think of the "projects". Parts of the West Side have been getting progressively worse, especially around 18th Street, and the area around West 26th Street between Liberty and Greengarden is slowly starting to go downhill. The "East 20s" still have their share of crime. And the Lower East Side and Buffalo Road are still a little rough around the edges. But by and large, Erie isn't really all that bad. Especially when you think of other cities our size such as Youngstown and Flint.
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  2. I think tourism is what kept Erie from turning into Youngstown or Flint. People who live here might not have much money to do stuff, but millions of people who live elsewhere that DO come here all the time.
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  3. Erie doesn't really have any "hoods". Probably the closest any area of town comes to being "the hood" are the East 20s (mainly between East 21st and 26th around Parade Street, Ash Street, and such). But even that part of town is probably nicer and safer than the "better" areas of other cities. I've lived in Erie for the last 15 years. I've been to Flint, and I've been to Youngstown. And there is NO part of Erie that comes anywhere close to being as bad as some areas of those cities.
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  4. President Trump was still knocking on doors collecting rent in buildings his father owned in Brooklyn and Queens when Erie started going downhill under mayor Lou Tullio's watch. 😂
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  5. There are absolutely NO areas of Peach Street, whether it be "lower" Peach downtown and up by what they call Federal Hill, or "Upper Peach" out by the mall, that come anywhere close to qualifying as "rough". The worst thing that will likely ever happen to you on Peach Street is that you sit in traffic, or get cut off by some moron from Ohio that doesn't know how to drive when he's trying to turn into the Millcreek Mall parking lot. 😂
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