Review of Newport News, Virginia


DO NOT MOVE HERE
Star Rating - 8/2/2008
I moved here from Seattle about a year ago because of the military. NN has a high crime rate, the streets are dirty, the attitude of the people here is horrible. The public health department does not visit local restaurants, you can tell by the grease on the walls. (Just watch some one handle your food...yuk) The cost of living is crazy, affordable if you want to live in the ghetto, and if you want to pay more....you just move into a nicer ghetto. There is so much racism here against anyone who isn't African American, and people do not hide it. The only thing good about NN is that it is in the middle of every where else that you shoud live. Williamsburg, Virginia Beach, and Yorktown.
EVA | Newport News, VA
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I will admit that Newport News has some bad areas but I have lived here for 15 years of my life as far as the racism I am African American and I have a wide variety of friends that also have a wide variety of friends. As far as this being the "ghetto" I must say as someone who has actually SEEN a REAL ghetto this is not it! I am assuming that you are ARMY because the military base in Newport News is Ft Eustis but if you happen to be navy and were assigned to the shipyard you should know that is DOWNTOWN and is the more "urban" side of Newport News. The whole city should not be judged based on that area because essentially that is the low income section 8 area.
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