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Kensington is hardly an example of the city, it was a mess before the pandemic. Drug epidemic is bad but that's all cherry picked, dude even said it https://you

Kensington is hardly an example of the city, it was a mess before the pandemic. Drug epidemic is bad but that's all cherry picked, dude even said it https://youtu.be/nl0fDm7HSQ0?t=169 https://youtu.be/nl0fDm7HSQ0?t=169 "one block is clean, the next isn't"

sylens 3y ago
My experience with Philadelphia since the pandemic is that its public transit is now riddled with crime and heroin users, whereas before that was not the case
grumple 3y ago
As someone who lives in Olde Kensington, that means half the blocks are bad. There are drug addicts, stick up kids, and insane people wandering every block throughout most of the city. The fact that I have to walk a few blocks to see 1000 zombies pass by doesn't mean it's not a problem that affects me. Go onto any of the main thoroughfares in Philly, even in upscale center city, and you'll see lots of addicts. It is not overblown, if anything it's underplayed. Those videos don't capture the scale. It's like an entire stadium of addicts on Kensington Ave every day. And that many again wandering throughout the city and on the trains.
- chucksta 3y ago
  I live in Philly too been here ~10+ years at this point. Not in Kensington though >There are drug addicts, stick up kids, and insane people wandering every block throughout most of the city Simply not true. Common its not that bad. Does it happen? Yes. Pervasive and constant through the city? No. It is overblown in the sense that the rest of the city does not look like that, or present the same risk.
  - grumple 3y ago
    I was downtown for 5 minutes around 19th and Market the other day, waiting at a truck for some halal food, and saw both the notorious screaming woman (who releases a bloodcurdling scream every 30 seconds or so that can be heard for blocks around) and a woman who had painted herself in her own feces. At every major intersection near me there are 1 to 5 heroin addicts asking for money from cars passing by on a daily basis. Go drive down Delaware Ave. Drive up Aramingo. Drive up Market. Drive up University Ave. Drive up Girard. You'll see them on every major street, right now. I'm a few blocks away form the Girard L stop and another methadone clinic. In either direction on Girard, I'll see not only half a dozen wandering addicts at any given time, but a group of 20-30 at Girard and Front is there basically all day every day, another dozen hang out by the clinic at 8th, there's usually more intermittently around the health clinic on Girard. To get to these gathering points, they naturally walk through other residential areas. I find the occasional addict passed out on bench-like structures throughout my neighborhood on a regular basis. I walked with some friends to dinner last night (about a 10 minute walk on Girard and in Nolibs) and we saw multiple heroin addicts and someone especially eccentric camping outside the restaurant we went to. I consider multiple addicts and insane people on any short walk through any major thoroughfare to be a pervasive problem.

sylens 3y ago

My experience with Philadelphia since the pandemic is that its public transit is now riddled with crime and heroin users, whereas before that was not the case

grumple 3y ago

As someone who lives in Olde Kensington, that means half the blocks are bad. There are drug addicts, stick up kids, and insane people wandering every block throughout most of the city. The fact that I have to walk a few blocks to see 1000 zombies pass by doesn't mean it's not a problem that affects me. Go onto any of the main thoroughfares in Philly, even in upscale center city, and you'll see lots of addicts. It is not overblown, if anything it's underplayed. Those videos don't capture the scale. It's like an entire stadium of addicts on Kensington Ave every day. And that many again wandering throughout the city and on the trains.

chucksta 3y ago
I live in Philly too been here ~10+ years at this point. Not in Kensington though >There are drug addicts, stick up kids, and insane people wandering every block throughout most of the city Simply not true. Common its not that bad. Does it happen? Yes. Pervasive and constant through the city? No. It is overblown in the sense that the rest of the city does not look like that, or present the same risk.
- grumple 3y ago
  I was downtown for 5 minutes around 19th and Market the other day, waiting at a truck for some halal food, and saw both the notorious screaming woman (who releases a bloodcurdling scream every 30 seconds or so that can be heard for blocks around) and a woman who had painted herself in her own feces. At every major intersection near me there are 1 to 5 heroin addicts asking for money from cars passing by on a daily basis. Go drive down Delaware Ave. Drive up Aramingo. Drive up Market. Drive up University Ave. Drive up Girard. You'll see them on every major street, right now. I'm a few blocks away form the Girard L stop and another methadone clinic. In either direction on Girard, I'll see not only half a dozen wandering addicts at any given time, but a group of 20-30 at Girard and Front is there basically all day every day, another dozen hang out by the clinic at 8th, there's usually more intermittently around the health clinic on Girard. To get to these gathering points, they naturally walk through other residential areas. I find the occasional addict passed out on bench-like structures throughout my neighborhood on a regular basis. I walked with some friends to dinner last night (about a 10 minute walk on Girard and in Nolibs) and we saw multiple heroin addicts and someone especially eccentric camping outside the restaurant we went to. I consider multiple addicts and insane people on any short walk through any major thoroughfare to be a pervasive problem.