Home of the Italian mob (note the numerous "Free Buddy Cianci!" shirts worn by college students in the city), Brown University (the ugly stepchild of the Ivy League- where you can graduate taking all classes pass/fail), RISD (which somehow managed to out-Brown Brown University), Providence College (where the kids their take more pride in their BAC than their GPA), Federal Hill (great Italian food- a good side benefit of the Italian mob), Providence Place Mall (funded by the mob, like everything else in this city), and lots and lots and lots of 'hood. There is no middle ground in Providence- you're either in a rich neighborhood or the projects. Oh, and waterfire is pretty cool.

Capital of Rhode Island, cool place to be, alot of people have fucked up definitions of providence. Each end has rich parts and poor parts, yes even the south side. You can be with yuppies, hippies, college kids, old people and gays on college hill-part of east side and go 4 blocks over to pleasant st. where u can still here gunshots every now and then. Most people who think they're going to get shot or robbed by driving in providence are from surrounding towns or out of state and are usually scared of what they dont understand. rhode island is full of white kids who are open minded for the most part, but are scared of the city because they have households that have alot of prejudice. Like white kids who have black friends in school, but dont hang with them on the weekends, and listen to hip-hop music and/or dress in that style. But wont have them over their house. The parents are like that too especially the farther into the sticks you go. They don't mind they're son having a black friend, but their daughter better not come home with a black boyfriend. Dumb shit like that. Theres not alot of evil hatred and racism, but there is a good amount of prejudice, mainly due to the people's own ignorance. But they'll never say it to your face. But providence is like any other city, you have good parts and bad parts, but unlike real bad ghettos in other states, PROVIDENCE IS STILL QUIET AT NIGHT! theres only 20 murders a year, in the whole state!! I was born and raised in providence, im 23 years old, and still live in providence. I hang with kids from cranston, warwick, west warwick, pawtucket, central falls, cumberland, smithfield, scituate, newport, warren, north kingstown, south kingstown,johnston, bristol, barrington, woonsocket, east providence, north providence, east side, south side, north side, west end, and fed hill. and most of the shit in these other definitions is crap.

Main city in Rhode Island, contains a lot of 'hood, a few rich college kids at Brown, and ghetto trash of all races. Women tend to wear lots of makeup, tramp stamps and gold jewelry. Men wear gold chains and ghetto style including shiny white sneakers and hats cocked up and to the side.

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Nothing to be afraid of.

Diverse melting pot style neighborhoods......Going down the toilet since the "corrupt" mayor got tossed.

Mr. Cianci may have not done things the way others would...but he got shit done and the city was better off.

The major free local publication(The Providence Phoenix) is a complete peice of shit rag that doesn't have the slightest clue about anything going on in the underground music scene (hip hop or rock) and they just step on and devastate the local music scene with their horrible bullshit in print.

the bad neighborhoods aren't even that bad if you think of human beings as human beings.....

I'm a scrawny white kid and I ride my bike through south prov and olneyville when its dark and light and never have problems.

There are alot of prejudice people and there are alot of pollitically correct people.....neither of which I really care for..

apparently there is a mob presence but I doubt like hell anyone ever "actually" witnesses any presence except for italian people eating italian food at italian restaraunts...

There is a large club scene here which is completely destroying the music scene and filling our neighborhoods with lousy college kids who have no courtesy for neighbors and drunk drivers flying up and down our streets making the pedestrian population unsafe.

This has the potential to be a great bike city....but it isn't.

Apparently they teach kids how to be juvenile delinquent shitheads at hope high school because thats what the majority of kids that come out of that school are...( there are always those shining scholar exceptions however )
But most of the time they are just no-good lazy,violent,drug addicted losers that just walk around after school...start riots at the mall and steal from retailers and blast shitty mp3s on there cellphones that sound like garbage.

This city has a lousy mayor who doesn't know how to do his fucking job and is a complete pansy.

the police is pretty onpoint......maybe they aren't always taking care of business in the proper order of importance but for the most part they are understanding and helpful in most situations.

Federal hill is just like any other ordinary restaraunt strip...nothing special...

all in all....providence is losing its appeal very quickly..

boston realtors are constantly moving in,buying up properties and jacking up rents.....

and the new faces jsut aren't as friendly or as educated as the ones that have been here for a while.

I love this city..it's beautiful...but its on its way out.

Waterfire sucks too.....nothing but a bunch of out of towners shittin up the joint and causing traffic jams city wide.

the best ckity in the world, we located in rhode island. niggas be gettin shot up, stabbed up, fucked up and robbed. dont ckome thru if u kno wuts good for u, i been livin in prov my whole life, i been shot 3 times n stabbed twice n im still here screamin B'z up!!!!! reppin 5 and killin these bitckh ass ckrabz. str8 BLOOD bitckh!!!!!

A city filled with homosexuals and transvestites located in Rhode Island... literally... EVERY SINGLE PERSON.

The queers that live in the city won't step foot in the city of Boston (about 45 miles north) because they get beat down so badly, they have to come home via an ambulance.

providence is basically a dump, where queer, cock sucking, trashy wanna-be wiggers and actual niggers coexist.

~a punk city aka the capital of rhode island... with nothing but pussies... where all the people there are bostons bitches. where new bedford people go on the weekend to run shit and hold it down... even tho they leave cause the city to crappy and gross to run on a daily basis... everyone there is all talk it is known in many new england cities as the "snitch city"... the city in which they swear they're tougher than boston, new bedford,fall river, and all 3 are at least badder in every way...

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Capital of and largest city in Rhode Island. A city initially founded by exile Roger Williams in the 1630s, it has since evolved to the diverse and dynamic city it is today. As an education center, it is home to Ivy League Brown University, artist mecca Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Providence College (PC) which is home of the Friars. The East Side is an affluent treasure of many beautiful historic homes. Federal Hill once most known for the Italian mafia and the Patriarca crime family, is now world renown for its Italian cuisine. Providence South Side is now a mecca of diversity and has become a landing spot for cultures from all over the world. It's a small but truly underrated city.