Youngstown is not as bad as listed here. It has its problems like every city. Nice parks, affordable housing (outside of the projects, like every other city has in America) a top notch, affordable state university and good paying jobs. Suburbs i.e. Boardman, Austintown, Canfield, Poland are very successful.
by YSU Bachelors recipient July 26, 2008
Yeah, Youngstown, Ohio has a nice park, but the guy that's so in love with Mill Creek failed to mention that people not of color can't walk there on a cloudy day--unless they're walking their Rottweiler!!! A friend who lives near that park actually gained a measure of safety by putting gargoyles on all his fence posts. The "local residents" are afraid of them, don't you know? Today (1/23/10), a gang-banger robbed and murdered a little old lady in my church parking lot as she left Mass. It might not be hell, but you get close enough to one of the few steel mills that are still in the area, you can feel the heat and smell the burning sulfur!!!
by NeverMoveBack January 24, 2010
Oddly enough, my favorite place to go. Since where I live is too boring and my parents grew up there so I've always gotten to go there all the time so it's like a second home. It's interesting enough if you're hanging out in the park: Lots of gunshots, people threatening to kill you, druggies, and male prostitutes. (But not everywhere in Youngstown, only the fun parts.)
by Moomoo March 07, 2005
“We are going to Youngstown State University, where you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.”
by vanwilder692 December 16, 2012
(n) Where Satan threatens to send residents of hell who are deemed unworthy. This desolate, barren wasteland was at one time an important manufacturer of steel, ranking third in the country in gross production - behind only Pitsburgh, PA and Gary, IN. After helping the U.S. military conquer the Nazis the city turned its attention to mafia car-bombings (known as a Youngstown tune-up). After much white flight, the city became a great place for crack-whores (especially lower Market Street,..you know near Chamlmers). Jim Tressel did what he could to return dignity to the city by capturing 4 National Championships in Division I-AA Football, but any gains made there have since been nullified by the imprisonment of the congressman, sheriff, prosecutor, county commissioner and a couple judges. Mess with Youngstown (the fucking Valley to you) and you will get skinned alive if you are lucky.
by Mojo February 15, 2005
1)The armpit of Ohio
2) Murdertown U.S.A in the 1950's & 1960's
3) Rundown Steel City halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh
4) Corruption
2) Murdertown U.S.A in the 1950's & 1960's
3) Rundown Steel City halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh
4) Corruption
by Michael Monus December 17, 2004
A mostly ghetto city in northeastern Ohio that is filled with crime, poverty, murder, drugs, and corruption.
by Sam January 02, 2005