Reviews & Comments
Dayton, OH
Named a dieing city and little Detroit -
11/25/2009I live in Dayton I was born and raised in and around the city and I know a great deal about it.First of all the two largest negatives of this city are crime rate and unemployment.Bacicly anywhere within the city limits is dangerous crime wise.Poverty and drugs are huge problems for the city unfortunatly as with alot of cities but with Dayton its self fluxuates between 18th most dangerous city and 8th most dangerous city in america depending on diffrent sources.The west side is the most dangerous of all.There is virtually no segragation there and you can likely be targeted if not of that paticular race unfortunatly.The locals here nicknamed our city little detroit because of the crime,ethnic backgrounds and the automotive industries.
The major employer of this city was of the automotive industry,theres only one plant not shut down as of now out of about 15 large plants.
On a more positive note most of the suburbs are not to bad and there are actually very nice neighborhoods outside the inner city.
If for some reason you have to move here(why I'm not sure because theres not many jobs to be transfering to here)you might want to keep these things in mind