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> The amount of homelessness and crime is 10 times more what I've seen anywhere else in North America. Woah. Talk about 4/20. I'll have what you are having. >
by huhtenberg 11y ago
> The amount of homelessness and crime is 10 times more what I've seen anywhere else in North America.
Woah. Talk about 4/20. I'll have what you are having.
> I've been to Vancouver and it wasn't a very pretty sight.
Well, I've been to US and it wasn't a very pretty sight either. I am of course talking about the atrocities I've seen on a late Friday night in Walton, Nebraska, but clarifying that would just totally ruin the post, wouldn't it?
What you are referring to is an area of Vancouver called Downtown Eastside, which sits to the East from downtown. More specifically - there's a several-block area around the intersection of Main and Hastings streets, which is indeed an impressive cloaca. It's been there for ages and, put bluntly, it serves as the Greater Vancouver junky area.
Outside of this part you'd be hard pressed to see homeless people and the "10x crime anywhere else in NA" statement is just a random collection of words.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside
- hasenj 11y agoYou are talking in a very defensive tone, like I have said something to deeply offend you. The mess extends to the surrounding areas as well, such as China-town. Also, I've mentioned the signs on shop windows (in areas far away) indicating an unusual crime level. Many streets were, not very clean, to say the least. Which is not hard to understand, given the "broken window" theory.
- ooooo00000 11y agoBut it's not clear why you think that homelessness in Vancouver is strongly connected to the availability of marijuana. Any evidence?
- hasenj 11y agoIt's the only major visible factor I was able to discern during my short visit. I'd love to see some counter proposals as to why that's the case in Vancouver.
- vsviridov 11y agoWell, how about closure of a big psych facility and letting people literally on the street? Or the fact that the area is starting to get massively gentrified, and whereas before that population was spread across entire East Hastings, now they have to converge by Pigeon Park, so the numbers seem massive? How about the fact that foreign land investors have caused the property prices in Vancouver to skyrocket over last decade, and for developers social housing doesn't sound like something they'd do. I heard that Riverview will be reopening, so, hopefully people with mental health issues can get off the streets. It's a sad state of affairs, but just saying "Because Marijuana" is silly...