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Originally Posted by chowhou
Ditto about things being safer. A friend of mine from university grew up in East Van and when we go out for dinner sometimes he'll point out that this pho restaurant or that dessert shop used to be no-go zones if you were part of the wrong gang. Remember that Yaletown used to be the bad part of town too!...
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Those issues essentially moved out to the Valley and even the interior.
https://vancouversun.com/news/crime/public-gang-shootings-in-b-c-heres-when-and-where-they-happened
The people priced out of the East Van crackhouses were basically pushed into the DTES . That's partly the reason why that one area has become so much worse.
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Originally Posted by chowhou
...I don't think that's just a Vancouver thing, talking to older generations I think that was just a 70s/80s thing.
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The internet basically made strip clubs redundant.
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