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No other city has such a stark contrast between the areas. In London, the poorest neighborhood is Canning Town, and even in its grimiest pockets, immediately so
by smikhanov 9y ago
No other city has such a stark contrast between the areas. In London, the poorest neighborhood is Canning Town, and even in its grimiest pockets, immediately south of Newham Way, it’s not as bad as parts of Tenderloin.
- RestlessMind 9y ago> No other city... I would urge you to travel to Asia if you think so. Mumbai would be a fine place to start. SF is not "racing ahead" to a dystopian future; its merely becoming a regular city where very rich and very poor cohabit. This egalitarianism is merely a passing phenomenon, which lasted for ~50 years, and is now shrunk to Western/Northern Europe and a few other small countries.
- smikhanov 9y agoI, of course, should’ve said “no other city in a first-world country”, but if you think that Mumbai is a fine goal for Californians to aspire to, so be it.