Are American ghettos completely beyond hope?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No, ghettos are great places to live if you're young and like to throw loud parties without the cops showing up. There's a punk house in Minneapolis in a ghetto exactly for that reason: So they can have illegal house shows without being harassed. They have yet to been harassed.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Although this is much more Northern style than the type of ghettos I instinctually think about, it gets the point across:

That looks like the first neighborhood I lived in.