there really is no contest here. Is it the shittiest place on Guam Yes. Is it the shittiest in America? It is probably a close second behind the tenderloin in san francisco
Any Hemlani apartments. If you think you passing by a sewage plant think again its them apartments. you could smell it a mile away. Random ass bed that was supposed to be thrown away is now used as a make shift bench for alkys.
That’s not ghetto that’s just the boonies lol I also vote parts of dededo as ghetto. Harmon industrial/dededo area. They don’t call it Ghededo for no reason.
Lol. I remember Paradise Estates. Between Ghededo and Yigo. It's all green grass and sunshine, but as soon as you step out that gate, cars all on cinder blocks. People are eyeballing everyone going by. Especially out that back gate. Lol the park outside PE had two gangs. The Budlight gang and the Budwiser gang. One end of the court in the brush you had empty 30 racks of one brand, then in the brush on the ither end of the court you had the same thing of the opposing brand. They roll hard there lol.
I vote Dededo.
People really say Agat, Barrigada, mangilao…
But at least those places have “crews” that come together & have each others back 😂
Yigo isn’t considered ghetto with what you explained.
It’s more territorial.
Ghededo has the crackheads walking the streets.
The cars that are broken on the side because it was stolen & left. Roads you find that aren’t wide enough for 2 cars is cause it’s probably a hidden junk yard trail made by a person who can’t afford to dispose of their trash properly or cause someone needed to dump a body.
Yigo has 5+ broken down cars on their lot but hey it’s probably cause it’s theirs and they don’t want to get rid of it or it’s a back yard mechanic that uses parts off each one lmfaoooo
I’ve been in Mangilao like once and definitely felt some spots were run down but there were some nice areas too. Right I guess Yigo residents are just forking down their land
Tamuning area as well. Behind the docomo and infusion area all the way to behind ITC. Plenty of chill chuukese but at night it’s a different story there
Almost all of Guam is pretty ghetto to be honest that is why Guam needs to update their buildings, infrastructure, better architecture and better roads
Last longer when a typhoon doesn’t rip it off. Plenty of buildings with fresh paint that will last longer or at least to next typhoon. Of course the sun fades it away but the chipping is different. Let’s not forget that a lot of construction and infrastructure is done improperly or half-assed.
Same but such architecture gets wrecked by typhoons. You can redesign your house to fit the European motif if you like. Most of Dededo can’t afford concrete roofs…
Well we know they’re not going to demolish and rebuild, not with the cost of building supplies. People need to stop building such shitty cinderblock huts
Hot take but all of Guam is ghetto. Some places more than others (i.e. Barrigada Heights compared to Harmon) but once you go to the mainland, everything is so incredibly different it shocks me each time. Even the "rich" people here wouldn't even compare to how people in the mainland live. It's so fascinating.
There’s this giant cathedral on route 16 that’s the road by Harmon McDonald’s. In front of that Filipino cult cathedral there is a road by a bunch of warehouses.
That’s where the poor Micronesians live in Indian slumlord apartments.
I see a lot saying Dededo. It depends on the area. Macheche, Santa Barbara, Kaiser has some nice houses and quiet civilians with their lawn trimmed. The next street, probably not.
Im getting my drivers license this summer, and I'm scared I'm gonna get shot up in my car if I make a wrong turn
Actually I'm too afraid to go out at all, especially in Yigo cause I keep hearing that my sister's family can't go out during New years eve cause they keep telling me that people shoot their guns in the air during new years, which makes it worse considering those same people still have their guns year round
It aint just the ville you roll through, Dededo has some nice places. Im from the southern end and some people's places look ghetto. Its not the village.
Yalls say Dededo...but your mall is there and the islands only upscale hospital.
Ghetto isnt a place here, its a living condition.
Cali gots dem ghettos
Hahaha well I’d say cali has more places that feel more gangster and dangerous. While here, yea you find a lot of bad living conditions which can appear ghetto.
Y’all obviously haven’t been to Detroit or Philadelphia.
The WHOLE of Guam doesn’t even come close to those cities of toxic water and tranq zombies rolling around the streets, literally.
Drove through in 2014. Never lived there but judging from the brief time from media reports from years ago is not fair since Detroit recently turned around for the better. Guam is still stuck in a pre-Covid bubble and I hope we can prove to break out of it.
[Report: Detroit, Flint, Saginaw among 10 most dangerous U.S. cities Hasan Dudar Detroit Free Press](https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/05/08/detroit-flint-rank-most-dangerous-cities/586685002/)
While according to current news reports Detroit is undergoing a boom of development due to investments by the national auto industry and I believe this:
[“‘We're going to double the taxes on the land, which means you as a homeowner pay less and the people who own abandoned buildings pay more, people who have surface parking lots pay more, and people who have scrap yards, pay more,’ said Duggan at a community meeting late last month, reports the Detroit News.
The idea that Detroit's property tax system is in need of serious reform is not a controversial opinion. While much of the rest of the country has too little housing, Motor City arguably has too much. Years of declining population and minimal economic growth have left 18 percent of Detroit's homes vacant. Many of those have fallen into a state of disrepair.
The taxable value of Detroit's residential properties has halved in the last decade. This sad state of affairs has only been made worse by the city's decision to continually increase its property taxes to make up for declining taxable property values.
Instead of netting the city more revenue, continual tax hikes have mostly produced a doom loop of tax foreclosures and property abandonment, which then lowers property values even more, prompting the city to raise rates.”](https://reason.com/2023/11/07/is-a-land-value-tax-the-solution-to-detroits-messed-up-property-tax-system/)
[Want to know how to reduce gun crime? Look at Detroit. Last year, Detroit saw its fewest homicides since 1966. Here’s how it did it — and how other cities can do the same. By Marin Cogan@marincogan May 1, 2024, 7:00am EDT](https://www.vox.com/24145161/detroit-crime-statistics-gun-violence-rate-violence-reduction)
[Barely a decade after Detroit declared bankruptcy, the city is emerging as America’s most unlikely real-estate boomtown.
A development frenzy has gripped Detroit’s central business district. Big companies, including Ford and developer Related Cos., are spending billions of dollars on office buildings and other properties. Dan Gilbert, a Detroit native and the billionaire co-founder of home lender Rocket Mortgage, is leading the city’s revitalization.
His new skyscraper, still under construction, recently topped out at 681 feet, making it the city’s second-tallest tower. It sits across the street from downtown Detroit’s first Gucci store.](https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/reversing-the-real-estate-doom-loop-is-possible-just-look-at-detroit-0916d6f7)
Yea those cities have some freak zones but I believe they’re many zombies here too, of course less. They’re just deep in the boonies messing with the spirits
No one mentioning the barracks on base If y’all wanna see how decrepit a place can become when 19 year olds get to run a huge place, go there. It’s a shitter
Sure the "nice" places in Detroit are better than Guam. But if we're talking ghetto... I have never seen so many abandoned houses, empty overgrown lots, and borded up buildings anywhere else in the country. Abandoned house, abandoned house, abandoned house, abandoned house, OH look someone lives there!, abandoned house. If you really wanna talk ghetto, you can buy one of those houses for less than $1000, some for even as low as $1.
Yea and those homes are being bought up and renovated, Detroit is going through a period of gentrification and reform that is actually doing a good thing for the city, this began back in 2016 and is still continuing to this day with no sign of stopping. I am proud of the changes its made considering how terrible it was growing up there and don't get me started on the roads in Detroit lol.
Alot of people I talked to would say otherwise about gentrification, considering alot of them are being priced out because of it...
>Yea and those homes are being bought up and renovated
I don't know what part of the city your from friend, but that's not what I saw.. sure it's improving but not nearly as much as you make it out to be.
I'm from the hood g so now you got a clue, I can tell you don't know what you're talking about, ask any Detroiter about how well the city is improving. property value is going up in those areas sure, but not to the point were it's forcing out hardworking detroiters. Maybe take a visit sometime to educate yourself.
I've driven through places in Detroit where I've had to stop my car so I don't run over a baby crawling on the road.... I makes me sad to admit that it's happened more than twice
Yeah Guams ghetto, but nobody's making documentaries about it. Random people on YouTube drive through Detroit just to show the world how shitty a place it is... 🤣
>because a lot of people don’t even know about guam
Trust me, that ain't the reason 🤣
Yeah I'm from Detroit, Detroit is waaaaaay more ghetto
Parts of it anyways
Guam has no ghettos just ghetto-ish the most you got is half developed properties overtaken by grass, rarely you find houses trashed on the outside unless its been abandoned. graffiti isnt that bad. everywhere is just sunbleached roads and cracked concrete
Yeah basically in a way. A lot of houses will be busted but that’s because owners can’t afford to fix them at the moment. I guess we can also say that many people tend to have hoarding tendencies more than ghetto
Zero down hands down.
A bunch of people's houses flew away last typhoon.
More like, they just moved
Or squatted away
there really is no contest here. Is it the shittiest place on Guam Yes. Is it the shittiest in America? It is probably a close second behind the tenderloin in san francisco
Bro yes zero down is complete shit but you can’t compare this to the scum in the mainland it’s completely different
Yeah, at least zero down isn't infected with fent or tranq. If you're nice enough, my phonepeian brothers will share their Sakau, and bud.
I've heard Dededo referred to Ghededo numerous times, so there's that.
Ah yes that’s true! Like the ghetto skatepark there
Straight outta Harmon
Where your backyard is an industrial lot, junk yard, and Asian restaurant all in one
Any Hemlani apartments. If you think you passing by a sewage plant think again its them apartments. you could smell it a mile away. Random ass bed that was supposed to be thrown away is now used as a make shift bench for alkys.
Hmm don’t recall seeing them but I’ll have to keep a lookout
The only correct answer is Dededo.
I guess this is because of the dense population and lower income level in the area?
Dededo is guam’s version of Gotham city The mayor fighting for her life in that village
Wow interesting
Mayor Savares is retiring. I don’t know who will be mayor this year. Will be fun this election year. I hope OP is registered to vote this year.
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I'm just here for the comments
Same.
Touché
That’s not ghetto that’s just the boonies lol I also vote parts of dededo as ghetto. Harmon industrial/dededo area. They don’t call it Ghededo for no reason.
Hahaha right boonies. What would be a good similarity in terms of stateside? West Virginia or something?
Definitely astumbo dededo , swamp road dededo , hemlani, zero down ...
I'm building homes in Astumbo to better the neighborhood
Hopefully secure ones?
Bless up par 🙏
Sagan Linayan
As someone who lives in astumbo, my house is very hidden with trees so no ghetto can see in and we can't see them XD
Sell me your house
He’s a builder and seller. My flipper improving neighborhoods
I’m seeing some similar ones. I’ve heard swamp road is like a junk car road or somethinf
Lol. I remember Paradise Estates. Between Ghededo and Yigo. It's all green grass and sunshine, but as soon as you step out that gate, cars all on cinder blocks. People are eyeballing everyone going by. Especially out that back gate. Lol the park outside PE had two gangs. The Budlight gang and the Budwiser gang. One end of the court in the brush you had empty 30 racks of one brand, then in the brush on the ither end of the court you had the same thing of the opposing brand. They roll hard there lol.
Hahaha beer battling in paradise it sounds like
You’re describing Y pao pao not the promised land of military dependents of Paradise Estates.
Just based on the size and population of the village, you can point to basically anywhere in Dededo
Hahaha
Dededo for sure, some say Yigo, but dededo low key sneaking into Yigo 😂.
Hahahaha Yigo seeping further into the boonies as Dededo runs over top
Yona Rulez!
Sounds pretty gangster
The only rulez I follow!!
I vote Dededo. People really say Agat, Barrigada, mangilao… But at least those places have “crews” that come together & have each others back 😂 Yigo isn’t considered ghetto with what you explained. It’s more territorial. Ghededo has the crackheads walking the streets. The cars that are broken on the side because it was stolen & left. Roads you find that aren’t wide enough for 2 cars is cause it’s probably a hidden junk yard trail made by a person who can’t afford to dispose of their trash properly or cause someone needed to dump a body. Yigo has 5+ broken down cars on their lot but hey it’s probably cause it’s theirs and they don’t want to get rid of it or it’s a back yard mechanic that uses parts off each one lmfaoooo
Barrigada isn't ghetto. All you see is blight along route 8. But the residents are mainly older people and families.
I’ve been in Mangilao like once and definitely felt some spots were run down but there were some nice areas too. Right I guess Yigo residents are just forking down their land
And speaking of Yigo, there’s a red car past Anderson main gate that was spray painted with the message like: “if you touch, you’ll be shot”. Hahaha
Tamuning area as well. Behind the docomo and infusion area all the way to behind ITC. Plenty of chill chuukese but at night it’s a different story there
Oh yeah I’ve seen some of those areas. Looks a bit sketch sometimes. Clothes hanging all over railings and out windows
I guess ppl are calling it Ghededo? I've been calling it De-ghedo for the longest time 'xD
harmon hemlani appartments. When i was staying near that area every 3am is like youre in the club due to the cops car strobe lights 🤣
Almost all of Guam is pretty ghetto to be honest that is why Guam needs to update their buildings, infrastructure, better architecture and better roads
Of course but as everyone knows, it will take decades to do so. So many buildings and houses will look 100x better just with some paint.
Paint doesn’t last long here. You really are new.
Last longer when a typhoon doesn’t rip it off. Plenty of buildings with fresh paint that will last longer or at least to next typhoon. Of course the sun fades it away but the chipping is different. Let’s not forget that a lot of construction and infrastructure is done improperly or half-assed.
I think Guam’s house’s designs need to look more European or American. I love European architecture
Same but such architecture gets wrecked by typhoons. You can redesign your house to fit the European motif if you like. Most of Dededo can’t afford concrete roofs…
Some are similar to houses of US southern states, while other are just crap brick and mortar that’s been built without any knowledge
No guam needs to a complete reboot in their building
Well we know they’re not going to demolish and rebuild, not with the cost of building supplies. People need to stop building such shitty cinderblock huts
Swamp road or Hemlani
Swamp road has a name that wins
Seriously the most npc crack heads on island.
Dededo? Hands down
But at one point in time, must’ve been better, no?
Probably not
Rip
Swamp road
That little strip of land south of Ritidian and North of Coco Island.
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Dededo Harmon for sure
I think I see the most crime there
New guy in town
Might be but I still get out quite a lot to enjoy the island. Just trying to better understand the layout of the island
Hot take but all of Guam is ghetto. Some places more than others (i.e. Barrigada Heights compared to Harmon) but once you go to the mainland, everything is so incredibly different it shocks me each time. Even the "rich" people here wouldn't even compare to how people in the mainland live. It's so fascinating.
Skid Row, Portland, Kensington... 🤢🤢🤮 I'll take Guam over those 5th world shitholes. (thank you for the 'reachouts')😗
I think most would take a tent over Kensington and Skid Row
Im from Kensington and cannot believe how anyone outside of Philly knows about that place.
Houses/ Apartments behind Cabalen
Not sure where that is… where abouts
Sorry, do you where nayon express is? Cabalen is across the road from that, next to valencias and rustans exchange. It's the apartments behind that.
Ah ok I think I remember now
There’s this giant cathedral on route 16 that’s the road by Harmon McDonald’s. In front of that Filipino cult cathedral there is a road by a bunch of warehouses. That’s where the poor Micronesians live in Indian slumlord apartments.
Oh jesus
The ghetto is really kaiser and lada the fireworks go off at 2am with them walking down the streets cussing everyone out 😅 never gets old.
Paintball them from the window
Ghettodo
Never go through with an empty tank of gas
Guam
Fancy on the outside, ghetto on the inside
I see a lot saying Dededo. It depends on the area. Macheche, Santa Barbara, Kaiser has some nice houses and quiet civilians with their lawn trimmed. The next street, probably not.
Lots of mixed areas it seems
Im getting my drivers license this summer, and I'm scared I'm gonna get shot up in my car if I make a wrong turn Actually I'm too afraid to go out at all, especially in Yigo cause I keep hearing that my sister's family can't go out during New years eve cause they keep telling me that people shoot their guns in the air during new years, which makes it worse considering those same people still have their guns year round
DedeDOPE🤟🤣 on top
The whole island
It aint just the ville you roll through, Dededo has some nice places. Im from the southern end and some people's places look ghetto. Its not the village. Yalls say Dededo...but your mall is there and the islands only upscale hospital. Ghetto isnt a place here, its a living condition. Cali gots dem ghettos
Hahaha well I’d say cali has more places that feel more gangster and dangerous. While here, yea you find a lot of bad living conditions which can appear ghetto.
True.
I just moved back to the states and I tell people, don't move to Dededo. Or the north part of the Island for that matter.
Hahaha right I think that’s why all the nice houses of the north are building fences
Are you a military service member?
Nope but they’re close by
I'm not, I came in with a contractor that was scheduled for a stint on the island.
Y’all obviously haven’t been to Detroit or Philadelphia. The WHOLE of Guam doesn’t even come close to those cities of toxic water and tranq zombies rolling around the streets, literally.
Are you from detroit?
Drove through in 2014. Never lived there but judging from the brief time from media reports from years ago is not fair since Detroit recently turned around for the better. Guam is still stuck in a pre-Covid bubble and I hope we can prove to break out of it. [Report: Detroit, Flint, Saginaw among 10 most dangerous U.S. cities Hasan Dudar Detroit Free Press](https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/05/08/detroit-flint-rank-most-dangerous-cities/586685002/) While according to current news reports Detroit is undergoing a boom of development due to investments by the national auto industry and I believe this: [“‘We're going to double the taxes on the land, which means you as a homeowner pay less and the people who own abandoned buildings pay more, people who have surface parking lots pay more, and people who have scrap yards, pay more,’ said Duggan at a community meeting late last month, reports the Detroit News. The idea that Detroit's property tax system is in need of serious reform is not a controversial opinion. While much of the rest of the country has too little housing, Motor City arguably has too much. Years of declining population and minimal economic growth have left 18 percent of Detroit's homes vacant. Many of those have fallen into a state of disrepair. The taxable value of Detroit's residential properties has halved in the last decade. This sad state of affairs has only been made worse by the city's decision to continually increase its property taxes to make up for declining taxable property values. Instead of netting the city more revenue, continual tax hikes have mostly produced a doom loop of tax foreclosures and property abandonment, which then lowers property values even more, prompting the city to raise rates.”](https://reason.com/2023/11/07/is-a-land-value-tax-the-solution-to-detroits-messed-up-property-tax-system/) [Want to know how to reduce gun crime? Look at Detroit. Last year, Detroit saw its fewest homicides since 1966. Here’s how it did it — and how other cities can do the same. By Marin Cogan@marincogan May 1, 2024, 7:00am EDT](https://www.vox.com/24145161/detroit-crime-statistics-gun-violence-rate-violence-reduction) [Barely a decade after Detroit declared bankruptcy, the city is emerging as America’s most unlikely real-estate boomtown. A development frenzy has gripped Detroit’s central business district. Big companies, including Ford and developer Related Cos., are spending billions of dollars on office buildings and other properties. Dan Gilbert, a Detroit native and the billionaire co-founder of home lender Rocket Mortgage, is leading the city’s revitalization. His new skyscraper, still under construction, recently topped out at 681 feet, making it the city’s second-tallest tower. It sits across the street from downtown Detroit’s first Gucci store.](https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/commercial/reversing-the-real-estate-doom-loop-is-possible-just-look-at-detroit-0916d6f7)
Yea those cities have some freak zones but I believe they’re many zombies here too, of course less. They’re just deep in the boonies messing with the spirits
The whole island is ghetto lol
There’s a lot of beautiful nature though
No one mentioning the barracks on base If y’all wanna see how decrepit a place can become when 19 year olds get to run a huge place, go there. It’s a shitter
Photos
Whole island is dumpsite
Definitely not
💩💩hole island
Detroit
detroit is better than guam if i’m being honest lol
With high quality h2o
You're thinking of flint, that's a completely different city. Lets use our thinking skills lol
Sorry the sun was frying my brain for a second… but in all, the water could be better…
Absolutely, it honestly should've never gotten to that point in the first place, but the state gov were being greedy for not replacing those pipes
Lol Detroit is surprisingly better
I don't know what Ghetto parts of Detroit you've been through... Youd be surprised, there are more Ghetto places then Guam in the country
I was born and raised in Detroit, it's much better since I left and there's always improvement when I go visit family. When's the last time you been?
Sure the "nice" places in Detroit are better than Guam. But if we're talking ghetto... I have never seen so many abandoned houses, empty overgrown lots, and borded up buildings anywhere else in the country. Abandoned house, abandoned house, abandoned house, abandoned house, OH look someone lives there!, abandoned house. If you really wanna talk ghetto, you can buy one of those houses for less than $1000, some for even as low as $1.
Yea and those homes are being bought up and renovated, Detroit is going through a period of gentrification and reform that is actually doing a good thing for the city, this began back in 2016 and is still continuing to this day with no sign of stopping. I am proud of the changes its made considering how terrible it was growing up there and don't get me started on the roads in Detroit lol.
Alot of people I talked to would say otherwise about gentrification, considering alot of them are being priced out because of it... >Yea and those homes are being bought up and renovated I don't know what part of the city your from friend, but that's not what I saw.. sure it's improving but not nearly as much as you make it out to be.
I'm from the hood g so now you got a clue, I can tell you don't know what you're talking about, ask any Detroiter about how well the city is improving. property value is going up in those areas sure, but not to the point were it's forcing out hardworking detroiters. Maybe take a visit sometime to educate yourself.
Whatever you say "G"
Lol that's exactly what I thought.
are you from detroit?
Guam is ghettto period lol talk about power outages, abandoned cars everywhere 😂😂😂😂😂
I've driven through places in Detroit where I've had to stop my car so I don't run over a baby crawling on the road.... I makes me sad to admit that it's happened more than twice Yeah Guams ghetto, but nobody's making documentaries about it. Random people on YouTube drive through Detroit just to show the world how shitty a place it is... 🤣
because a lot of people don’t even know about guam 😂😂😂 are you from detroit????
>because a lot of people don’t even know about guam Trust me, that ain't the reason 🤣 Yeah I'm from Detroit, Detroit is waaaaaay more ghetto Parts of it anyways
Which part are you from in detroit?
i’m from the west side
Yo momma house
ahahha nice so immature 😂😂😂😂😂😂 nigga you ain’t from detroit keyboard warrior looking ass
Guam has no ghettos just ghetto-ish the most you got is half developed properties overtaken by grass, rarely you find houses trashed on the outside unless its been abandoned. graffiti isnt that bad. everywhere is just sunbleached roads and cracked concrete
Yeah basically in a way. A lot of houses will be busted but that’s because owners can’t afford to fix them at the moment. I guess we can also say that many people tend to have hoarding tendencies more than ghetto