Vancouver a great city despite its rotten core.
Sounds like a tourist got stuck staying near the downtown eastside.. From todays Star Phoenix:
Somewhat less beautiful is Vancouver. We stayed this time on the periphery of the city’s notorious Downtown Eastside, where the beggars and crackheads roam. Crack addicts are easy to distinguish from the other vagabonds. They’re constantly scanning the sidewalk around their feet, as if looking for cigarette butts. That’s what I thought at first they were doing. But no. What they’re really looking for is crumbs of crack that some careless addict might have dropped in the night. Any little bit of white detritus, they pick up, carefully examine and then discard. This is how they spend their days. I was reminded of the zombies in George Romero’s Living Dead films.
The entire review isn’t that bad - Despite its rotten core Vancouver is ranked by that visitor as among the greatest cities, and they really enjoyed Quadra Island.
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August 9th, 2007 at 8:36 am
kinda hard to explain in a travel brochure but the “zombies” are harmless and lend colour to an otherwise drab street setting….
ya’ll come back now!
August 9th, 2007 at 8:58 am
And here I thought the article was from Phoenix, Arizona.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:51 am
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/sto.....using.html
August 9th, 2007 at 10:35 am
The term ‘continuing to cool’ is new to me, most recent coverage about the Vancouver and Canadian housing market have just been all about up up up! I didn’t realize canada was eight consecutive months into smaller increases in new home prices. Thats certainly no crash, but it looks like the death of a boom.
Will be interesting to see how the tightening credit market plays into this whole thing.
August 9th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
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