[JohnnyB]

Yeah, I have sadly seen some pretty hard conditions in traveling around emerging markets both urban and rural, but Vancouver is more dystopian than those places. Go around the DTES and it's the epicenter of a whirlpool of despair. You can tell that in Vancouver the wages-costs disparity among other issues has many people just circling the edges of the whirlpool and only needing one or two tough breaks to get pulled into it, at which point things can spiral quickly into brutal addiction, violence and ultimately death - all of this while surrounded by affluence and an abundance of resources. It's heartbreaking to see.