[Phanuthier]

Sounds alot like Edmonton, with a few changes...

Wow......I have never in my life been to a more depressing and sad city in my life. EVERYTHING is old, I spent 3 hours driving around and saw like 2 new buildings the whole time(and by new I mean 1980's).

The streets, all of them except the Interstates were horrid, potholes every where, cracks and chunks of pavment coming up everywhere.

Never before have I seen so many boarded up factorys, buildings, houses.......almost like a big ghost town. Not to mention the factories that still run are right in the middle of residential housing. Also everywhere you go you see rements of buildings that have been knocked down, but no one has ever bothered to pick up and dispose of the rubble.

Then I decided to go into the "big malls"....ohh boy. Half of the stores had nothing in them, with for lease signs on the boarded up exterior.

Every residential community I drove through looked like they were "projects", I saw a guy smoking what I assume to be crack right on his front porch.

I think Northlands owns the city, Iam not kidding. The arena, a tower, 3 buildings all named Northlands. Signs and billboards everywhere for Northlands, sided of buses with Northlands, I saw two cars with Northlands on them