system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Do residents of poor neighborhoods want outsiders to stay out?

When I move to or visit a new city, I usually try to visit some of the poorer neighborhoods. I have a variety of reasons for this, but I've long felt this was part of getting a true idea of what a place is like. San Francisco would be a different place without the Tenderloin, etc. But, on at least a couple of occasions I have been told that I shouldn't do this, because the people living there don't want me there. Is there any truth to this? Doesn't social and economic isolation just perpetuate poverty? I don't know where else to post to get an answer to this.
gpt
Lots of neighborhood studies talk about how neighborhoods keep outsiders out on general purpose, suspicious that they could be anything from rivals looking to steal shit, to authorities looking to bust people. Check out Suttles *Social Order of the Slum* or Eli Anderson's *Streetwise* for more on the topic.