I was born and raised there

For 20 years I lived in an upper middle class neighborhood - that was right next to the public housing projects.

Lived close to one

I've lived in the streets ghetto would have been nice.

We call it ‘housing commission’ here’

No, I lived in the countryside.

Now I live in the suburbs.

No. I live north of the river. The ghetto is south of the river.

no just the bad side of town where people got constantly robbed and attacked in their own homes by wanna be rapist murderers our neighbor lady fought off some guy who had a knife with her bare hands.. he got away tho .. she was like screaming to my mom and dad to call the cops she lived in the upstairs apartment over the fence on the other side of our house

I have been to America a few times

no...here's the ghetto not that far from me,,,,bet nobody thought canada had one [media=https://youtu.be/ICnGTmy-FaQ]

No... But growing up after my dad left our house WAS the party house (In a Nice neighborhood) But my Mom was still young and wild so even though it was a nice neighborhood we where the Hoodlums and again because of that I have been around ALL kinds of Thugs,Hood Type People,Ect... They ALL used to hang out at our house... So NO I didn't grow up in the Ghetto but I might as well had... Is all I am saying

I lived downtown for about five years. That was enough.

Does Canada have a ghetto?

Not considered a ghetto, but it was pretty bad.
Had a stabbing down the street, and a man next door had a large squad of police cars come to his house; he did not return for as long as I lived there.

I lived in a lower class Spanish hood for several years when I was a young adult . It was still safe though.
Lived in Manhattan for several years near housing projects but they kept the dysfunction contained .

For a spell, skid row.

I don’t know

In the U.S., some people refer to any urban immigrant neighborhood, usually with people speaking a language other than English, as a ghetto. If that is what is meant, I lived in such a neighborhood until I was eight and a half years old .

The term is often used pejoratively. In contrast, the people who lived there at the time, and their descendants who live there today, would not feel negatively about the place at all. In fact, there is a sense of cultural pride about the place . None of the residents or former residents would ever call it a ghetto.

For most of my life, I have heard the word primarily used to refer to poor Black neighborhoods. I have never lived there.

In an emotional ghetto, not a physical one.

Yes

No