that other place would be uptown. for as close as the hill is to oakland theres not that much trouble as youd think. the pitt police aren’t rent-a-cops, they are just as much a police force as the PPD.
the city doen’t look nice first off because in this country you can sit on your ass at home on welfare and be as unproductive as posible. Its not the working class neighborhoods that look like shit, is it? secondly, all the “artists” seem to think graffiti is a fucken game and that they have to write on everything possible ( i will catch someone in the act one day and stick the spray can up their ass) and third you have a whole bunch of people that come into the city from the glorious suburbs and don’t give a rats ass about the city, they just use it and leave it. mostly its students who litter, carry on and other wise act like trash.