Canada’s Worst Street

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Exploring Canada’s Worst Street

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GKhan's picture

If you are interested in this, I recommend Streets of Plenty.

There is also a UBC prof Gabor Mate that works with the Vancouver downtown Eastside folks. A few of you have posted about him too. Here's his site.

 

It is really the strangest place, for the average Vancouver-rite or tourist even, it is probably one of the safest places in Vancouver. Condos are $600K+ in the area so it houses a very affluent population. There are tonnes of awesome restaurants and bars around there. But at the same time, has the worst poverty and drug addiction in Canada.

 

From a local perspective it's the weirdest experience to go there. I'll park the car, walk down a normal street, get to Hastings street and be like WTF is this??? Walk another block and all normal again. Some of the bars are down dark alley ways and you see young drunk people walking down there. Easy targets but no one bothers them.

 

 

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monkeymania's picture

More guns would make it safer and more exciting at the same time.

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