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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by Turing_Machine on Thursday October 15, 2015 @04:34PM (#10395809)
Tattoo parlors. Strip clubs. Hole-in-the-wall liquor stores. Pull-tab joints. Attended laundromats (people who live in bad neighborhoods don't have their own washers and dryers, and ones that are inside apartment buildings tend to get vandalized/broken into).
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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by twic on Thursday October 15, 2015 @07:24PM (#10396606)
What's a pull-tab joint?
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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by Nadya on Thursday October 15, 2015 @07:29PM (#10396635)
I imagine liquor stores that sell pull-tabs. I'm unaware of stores dedicated to selling pull-tabs but there are a lot of corner liquor stores that are more or less frequented by people purchasing pull-tabs and cigarettes more than anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-tab

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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by twic on Saturday October 17, 2015 @07:15AM (#10404059)
Ah, thanks. FWIW, the UK equivalent is the scratchcard:

https://www.national-lottery.co.uk/games/gamestore/scratchca...

You can buy these in most newsagents, and as far as i know there aren't dedicated shops for them.

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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by Turing_Machine on Thursday October 15, 2015 @10:23PM (#10397140)
There are indeed dedicated stores for selling them in some areas. It probably varies by state.
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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by Nadya on Friday October 16, 2015 @12:01PM (#10400177)
The More You Know

I've never seen any in California, but the gist holds true. It's a good indicator that it is a poor part of town.

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