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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Obviously all those places have issues - but suspect its wildly overblown. Considering the prices of living in those places - seems likely the demand to move there is quite high.
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I'm actually not sure it is.
I was in Vancouver and Seattle earlier this summer and both places were pretty bad in certain areas. Locals in both areas talked about the of rise of crime and homeless population becoming a really big issue. .
Seattle especially we were warned by our hotel and some security guards at some of the shops downtown to be very careful and that theft and crime was rampant, and not to venture out too late if we didn't know where we were going.
I'm sure for people in these cities with good jobs that live in the better suburbs (we were told we should have stayed in Bellevue/Redmond in Seattle for example) it's fine, but in the actual downtown cores it can be quite bad.
We've travelled a lot and I've never really been worried about being out late at night whether it was New York (Manhattan, or Brooklyn), Rome, Prague, etc but in Seattle downtown and in Vancouver (had to just cross East Hastings) it was probably the most nervous I've been walking around at night while travelling.