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Originally Posted by lio45
Yeah, I guess we can all agree that the downtowns of Detroit and Cleveland are going in the right direction (i.e. cleaner and nicer than 10 years ago) while many Canadian cities are going in the wrong direction (i.e. dirtier and way more homeless than 10 years ago).
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Good grief, have you been to Detroit and Cleveland? (I doubt it). No large Canadian city comes anywhere close in terms of decrepitude. I was in Detroit last summer, and yes, there are pockets of redevelopment, but the city as a whole is in
extremely rough shape, on a scale that is unimaginable in Canada. There are reasons why these two cities are buzzwords for urban decay. Tens of thousands of abandoned homes. Hundreds of abandoned factories and schools, hectares of urban prairie, block after block of shuttered retail.
Your logic is strange. Ouagadougou and Port Moresby are also on the up and up, but these are not place conducive to wandering, even as Canadian cities have witnessed growth in homelessness.