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> make the city centres safe, clean, friendly places Agreed. Exactly as most of the rest of the world has done. In the developing world (India, China) and the
by screye 4y ago
> make the city centres safe, clean, friendly places
Agreed. Exactly as most of the rest of the world has done. In the developing world (India, China) and the old west (Europe), cities are the place to be. They are safe, easy to get around and much much more happening.
> without having to dodge heroin needles or human excrement or have abuse hurled it us or be assaulted
This is such a west coast experience. I have seen this in SF/Seattle, but Boston/NYC's homeless have seemed pretty innocuous. It is local politics problem. Cities around the world don't have these issues either.
Cities continue to be expected to be havens for every kind of person, while suburbs create their own walled gardens. But if a city every proposes suburb style discriminatory policy, it will immediately be viewed as 'racist'. (Usually Racism of this form is just people looking out for their own socio-economic interests. I won't always call it hatred driven Racism. But, the standard west-coast suburbanite surely would) Because it is, and suburbs have been able to get away with massive unsustainable, economically draining and exclusionary policies for half a century.
> fights and the filth, got too many concussions
Where did you live ? I have spent my entire life in high-density cities and have never come close to anything like this.
- pojzon 4y ago
- watwut 4y agoHave you ever checked actual crime rates? Cause this does not passes smell test. You are way more likely to be robbed or attacked in Prague or Warsaw then in Vienna or Munich or whatever. And the cops will be harder to deal with in Eastern Europe. Eastern European cities are safer then they used to be in the nineties, sure. They are safe enough to have kids walk around. They are not safer then wester cities which are even more safer in general.
- pojzon 4y agoNoone ever robbed me in 30 years of living in a big Eastern city. On the other hand I was robbed twice in a single day in Paris. Police was watching the dude run away. I wont say his ethnicity.
- nicbou 4y ago"I won't say his ethnicity" Why not say nothing at all about it?
- watwut 4y agoBecause he wanted to imply it. He wanted us to be clear on that it was not white person robbing him.
- watwut 4y agoBig Eastern cities have robberies too. And fights too. They are not some kind of hellholes, most are safe enough. But they are not safer then western cities. Small Eastern cities do have criminality too, for that matter. Both organized and low level one. As I said, it is all improving in general, but claim that they are oh so safer is not true.
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoEastern cities can also be safer for foreigners in general. Cities like Prague depend on being tourist hotspots. If they get a reputation for being dangerous, they'll lose a lot of rich people a lot of money. Serious crime against foreigners may be dealt with harshly enough that criminals learn to stick to the locals and limit to mild scams on the tourists. After all, the tourists bring the money that they can then steal from a local at leisure.
- 988747 4y ago>> Cities like Prague depend on being tourist hotspots. No, they don't. Prague is the capitol of Czech republic, there is a lot of business there, and tourists are just nuisance. Same for big Polish cities like Warsaw or Cracow. Crimes against foreigners are not treated any different than crimes against locals, there's simply not much crime to begin with. https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Poland&city1=Warsaw&country2=France&city2=Paris https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Pol...
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- burntoutfire 4y ago> Eastern European cities are safer then they used to be in the nineties, sure. They are safe enough to have kids walk around. At age 9 and 10, I was travelling every day alone in a city bus to school through a city in Poland in early nineties. Nothing ever happened to me. I don't think there was particularly that much violent crime even then. Car thefts, OTOH, were pretty common until the mid 2000s when the police and state got the hang of it.
- chakhs 4y agoYou're just being racist, western Europe is very safe
- deanCommie 4y ago> This is such a west coast experience. I have seen this in SF/Seattle, but Boston/NYC's homeless have seemed pretty innocuous. It is local politics problem. It's a numbers and climate problem. If you're homeless in Toronto, Montreal, Boston, or New York in the winter, you die. If you come to LA, San Francisco, Seattle, or Vancouver, you survive