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04 Aug 2011, 8:46 pm

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where are you?

Belgium.
Of course we have two or three poor neighborhoods in the biggest cities where criminality is relatively high but I have talked to people who live there and they don't even think it's that bad. Definitely nothing compared to the gang violence in big cities in for exemple the US.


its funny, you add the yearly death toll in violent crimes of newyork, LA, DC, STL and miami and you're still short of puertoricos death toll.



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04 Aug 2011, 8:58 pm

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According to some people, I live in one, though it's not really that bad.


Where's that then?

And yes, I have looked up 'rough' neighbourhoods, mainly to ascertain as to whether or not they'll be relatively safe to visit during the day.


I live in the Rainy City. I'll let you guess.


If u lived in the US I was gonna say Seattle, WA


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05 Aug 2011, 4:45 pm

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05 Aug 2011, 6:50 pm

i've lived in enough of those kinda places i don't need to look them up. been robbed at gunpoint, had our car stolen (twice), tire bolts loosened, former husband assaulted on the lawn. my city is nicknamed Deadmonton because of the number of murders here.

i also lived in a place where i had a B&E while i was inside alone with my kid, and another place where a pack of half-wild dogs sadly killed a child.

funny thing is, most of those neighbourhoods looked clean and well-kept. in canada the projects and indian reserves (reservations) are dangerous but don't look like it. now i live in sickening suburbia.


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06 Aug 2011, 3:18 pm

Hey a name I remember from about a year ago..

hyperlexian wrote:
i've lived in enough of those kinda places i don't need to look them up...

anyway..

Same here (including about 5 years main and hastings area as a teen and work with homeless and prostitutes), except I do look them up by choice, for uni.

OP you might find this article interesting.
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?cont ... 62114_5536
Last crap place I lived in Canada was Saskatoon, which was (maybe still is) the rape capital of Canada.

Sad thing is, over the last 11 months I have noticed, where I am now, more and more signs of places like m&h when I was there. When I first came here I went looking for the crappy areas and help centres, because of what I am taking in uni. The papers had said the problem was really bad here, but it wasn't as bad as I had expected. I saw no open drug use those first couple months here, but about a month ago I saw someone shooting-up outside the police station during the day.



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06 Aug 2011, 3:34 pm

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We don't have dangerous neighborhoods over here, luckily.


Where are you from? Every place in the world has places that people who don't live in tend to avoid if they can.



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06 Aug 2011, 3:39 pm

Most of Stockton, CA is pretty bad. Especially in the area of East 9th street. I had to go down that street more than enough times and every time I did I felt like I seriously was going to be shot. Every house had bars on their windows and all these gang banger lookin thugs would stare me down. Like I didn't belong there (which I didn't). That's one place in CA I'm not going to miss.


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06 Aug 2011, 3:41 pm

Tequila wrote:
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We don't have dangerous neighborhoods over here, luckily.


Where are you from? Every place in the world has places that people who don't live in tend to avoid if they can.

I've already said where I'm from in this topic already I think.

And yes there are places that people would avoid, but like I've said I talked to people who live in those neighborhoods and they wouldn't describe it as dangerous.



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06 Aug 2011, 3:43 pm

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And yes there are places that people would avoid, but like I've said I talked to people who live in those neighborhoods and they wouldn't describe it as dangerous.


Of course not, they have to rationalise it to themselves so they feel 'safe' living there a lot of the time.

Oh, you're from Belgium. Oh. Didn't know that.



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06 Aug 2011, 4:00 pm

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Of course not, they have to rationalise it to themselves so they feel 'safe' living there a lot of the time.

Possible.



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06 Aug 2011, 9:03 pm

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Hey a name I remember from about a year ago..

hyperlexian wrote:
i've lived in enough of those kinda places i don't need to look them up...

anyway..

Same here (including about 5 years main and hastings area as a teen and work with homeless and prostitutes), except I do look them up by choice, for uni.

OP you might find this article interesting.
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?cont ... 62114_5536
Last crap place I lived in Canada was Saskatoon, which was (maybe still is) the rape capital of Canada.

Sad thing is, over the last 11 months I have noticed, where I am now, more and more signs of places like m&h when I was there. When I first came here I went looking for the crappy areas and help centres, because of what I am taking in uni. The papers had said the problem was really bad here, but it wasn't as bad as I had expected. I saw no open drug use those first couple months here, but about a month ago I saw someone shooting-up outside the police station during the day.

hey Saskatoon still does have that honour! i know way too much about Hastings. it's a very sad place. Canada has a dark side. for goodness' sakes some of the public libraries in my city have sharps (needle) dispensers in the toilets for the drug users.

did you have a different username a year ago? hmmm i guess you might not wanna share that, or you would still be using that name lol...


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06 Aug 2011, 10:39 pm

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hey Saskatoon still does have that honour! i know way too much about Hastings. it's a very sad place. Canada has a dark side. for goodness' sakes some of the public libraries in my city have sharps (needle) dispensers in the toilets for the drug users.

did you have a different username a year ago? hmmm i guess you might not wanna share that, or you would still be using that name lol...

Libraries had those over 15 yrs ago in some areas of BC, and about 2 or 3 yrs later many places started to put in black lights 8O

Yes I did have a different name, but I can't recall it for the life of me. Ohh maybe you will remember it or maybe you can find some of our old post.. will pm you with more info



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06 Aug 2011, 10:44 pm

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hey Saskatoon still does have that honour! i know way too much about Hastings. it's a very sad place. Canada has a dark side. for goodness' sakes some of the public libraries in my city have sharps (needle) dispensers in the toilets for the drug users.

did you have a different username a year ago? hmmm i guess you might not wanna share that, or you would still be using that name lol...

Libraries had those over 15 yrs ago in some areas of BC, and about 2 or 3 yrs later many places started to put in black lights 8O

Yes I did have a different name, but I can't recall it for the life of me. Ohh maybe you will remember it or maybe you can find some of our old post.. will pm you with more info

yeah they've been here a while too but i don't know how long. probably not as long as BC. i didn't realise how popular libraries are for shooting up drugs.


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07 Aug 2011, 6:05 pm

hyperlexian wrote:
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hey Saskatoon still does have that honour! i know way too much about Hastings. it's a very sad place. Canada has a dark side. for goodness' sakes some of the public libraries in my city have sharps (needle) dispensers in the toilets for the drug users.

did you have a different username a year ago? hmmm i guess you might not wanna share that, or you would still be using that name lol...

Libraries had those over 15 yrs ago in some areas of BC, and about 2 or 3 yrs later many places started to put in black lights 8O

Yes I did have a different name, but I can't recall it for the life of me. Ohh maybe you will remember it or maybe you can find some of our old post.. will pm you with more info

yeah they've been here a while too but i don't know how long. probably not as long as BC. i didn't realise how popular libraries are for shooting up drugs.


I was once told that libraries were almost near perfect and way better then right on the street.
Do they have sharps containers in city hall? I remember just before I left Victoria heading to Saskatchewan going into the vic city hall and ended up seeing them in there as well.


hmmm just realised this might get confusing for some when I post a response to my temp name lol


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07 Aug 2011, 6:07 pm

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hey Saskatoon still does have that honour! i know way too much about Hastings. it's a very sad place. Canada has a dark side. for goodness' sakes some of the public libraries in my city have sharps (needle) dispensers in the toilets for the drug users.

did you have a different username a year ago? hmmm i guess you might not wanna share that, or you would still be using that name lol...

Libraries had those over 15 yrs ago in some areas of BC, and about 2 or 3 yrs later many places started to put in black lights 8O

Yes I did have a different name, but I can't recall it for the life of me. Ohh maybe you will remember it or maybe you can find some of our old post.. will pm you with more info

yeah they've been here a while too but i don't know how long. probably not as long as BC. i didn't realise how popular libraries are for shooting up drugs.


I was once told that libraries were almost near perfect and way better then right on the street.
Do they have sharps containers in city hall? I remember just before I left Victoria heading to Saskatchewan going into the vic city hall and ended up seeing them in there as well.


hmmm just realised this might get confusing for some when I post a response to my temp name lol

i've never been in city hall.


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07 Aug 2011, 6:20 pm

eep, there are riots and looting in enfield tonight and my friend's going back there from a Morrissey gig. hope he's ok. and nobody loots him.