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Originally Posted by LA21st
Venice is completely cleaned up. I was there last weekend. It's almost too normal. I didn't see any crazies, druggies or anything. The cops are there, and their presence is known. It's never going back to the show it was. It's actually a upper middle class/rich neighborhood, but the boardwalk gives the impression it's not.
As far as safe between Chicago and SF, I did feel more edge in the tenderloin than downtown Chicago in general, but downtown Chicago does have sketchy parts even in the good areas. Divison/Clark, State/Chicago, Jackson/State are def places you need to be on guard.
Parts of River North at night too.
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That's great. The city never should have tolerated people camping on the Venice boardwalk and beach. It's an iconic landmark, that's globally well known. Btw, do you know they went? A couple blocks away?
Are they still under the 405 overpass on Venice Blvd? (that's basically what the boardwalk looked like in July).
https://goo.gl/maps/tjZeYoN7accid5oo7
It was really bad when I was there over the July 4th weekend. We took some bikes out and biked the entire Venice boardwalk from Marina del Rey to Santa Monica. As soon as you crossed the border from LA (Venice) into Santa Monica it cleaned up.
The grass along the Venice stretch was scorched, dead brown, dusty, patchy because it was too full of semi-permanent settlements and filth that the city must've turned off the sprinklers.
I found a YouTube video, you still see some small tents and homeless wandering aimlessly around, but a total turnaround from July. Also notice how green the grass is now, looks like the city turned the irrigation back on.
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