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Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp
I'm not making it out to be anything. I'm quoting people, who are a lot more qualified than your or I, who are talking about the problems there. I'm not the one calling the place an epidemic, the World Health Organization is.
Maybe you should talk a walk along there, step on an AIDS needle and see how safe you feel then!
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You were calling it a slum and called it the worst in north america. You backed it up with some stats about the concentration of the drug use. A bad 8 block stretch of horrible drug use makes it a "slum".
And for the record, about 4 months ago, I was meeting my buddies at the Number Five Orange. A disgusting strip bar in the heart of the downtown east side. I knew i was going to be drinking, so I trained down to Main Street station and walked the rest of the way. It's about a KM walk and all along main street. I crossed Main and Hastings, the most notorious of the downtown east side intersections. It was 1130 on a Saturday night. I didn't step on any needles. I didn't get jumped, nothing happened. I didn't even think twice about taking the walk. Yes the drugs are bad, and the area is bad, but it's not un safe. It's just gross. I wouldn't even consider taking a 15 minute walk in downtown Detroit at 1130pm on a Saturday night.
Seriously bud, before you make ridiculous claims, know what you're talking about.