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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
Surely not every part of Metro-East is shitty?
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It's pretty damn bad. If you stand directly across the river from the Arch and draw a circle with a radius of 10 miles, I'd say just about everything within that circle on the east side is absolutely horrible. Strip clubs, poverty, decimation, pollution from chemical plants and refineries, crime. I doubt there's another city in the US (or maybe in the developed world) that has to contend with a neighbor as bad as East St. Louis, and the state of IL doesn't give a shit.
That said, if you go farther north along the river you find a bunch of cool, old river cities with tons of character like Alton and Grafton. To the northeast you've got Edwardsville (home to SIUE) and to the southeast you've got Belleville, both of which are nice little towns. Due east is basically exurbs, and I'm not sure about south along the river—I think it's pretty rural.