The area of ghetto and bad
neighborhoods that
separates a major city from the surrounding suburbs. To get to downtown, one must either go through, or around
the Ghetto Buffer.
Wife: Honey, why are you
getting on the freeway? It's a shorter trip on the smaller roads because of all the traffic
on the interstate.
Husband: I'm not driving this car through those shitty
neighborhoods. We have to avoid the Ghetto Buffer.