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Atlantic City, NJ
Population:
40,000
Worst Feature:
Gang Violence, Slums, Donald Trump
Best Feature:
Legal Gambling
Despite the introduction of legalized gambling and Casinos on the boardwalk,
that were supposed to lead to a renaissance for AC, it remains a stink hole.
The Casinos have done little or nothing to improve the slum conditions of
the surrounding area. Since the cities decline that began soon after WWII,
before the Casinos, in the 60’s and ‘70’s the only visitors to AC were,
either “poor, black, elderly or all three” – now they are its primary
residents with drug and rat infested tenements often existing right beside
or behind multi-billion dollar casinos.
Visitors are advised not to wear
jewellery even out on the Boardwalk, and not to stray to far from the resort
areas. With the accompanying crime and prostitution that gambling invariably
brings, many think that the Casinos have down more to kick the cities
downward slide into overdrive then help pull it up.
Even gamblers hate the
place, one said “it’s cold, it smells, most f the table games suck, and to
top it off I can’t stand Trump and I hate seeing his name all over the
place”
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