Sorry dude, but these places are ghettos. If you have to go to the ghetto, make it your highest priority that you don't stay there. Do the work and try to build

Sorry dude, but these places are ghettos. If you have to go to the ghetto, make it your highest priority that you don't stay there. Do the work and try to build your portfolio. Better yet, create interesting side projects and ship / OSS them. Indirectly, Twistori brought in more consulting work for me than antyhing else I ever did.