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I drive past it several times a week.
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This Days Inn and surrounding motels in and around Nanaimo and Kingsway is one hell of a wild ride. It went from shelter for refugees to drug addict haven. The area was generally a pretty quiet place up until when this happened. There's been a moderate increase in petty property crimes and general signs of drug use/trade. At risk of being a NIMBY, I wished there were an opportunity for public consultation on the roll out of the conversion of the properties for their current uses.
Is the area still supposed to be shady now?

I pretty much do stuff in that area on a weekly basis -- there is a Hong Kong-style bakery there with crazy good egg tarts, and their bor law bau (pineapple buns) are pretty good too. And of course I shop at T&T as well. The vietnamese restaurant right at Kingsway and Victoria is also a place I go to -- more for the vibe instead of the food LOL~ so I walk all around in that area pretty frequently, and it doesn't seem particularly shady to me -- at least not during day time.
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Is the area still supposed to be shady now?
In general, no. But if you live in the area, you'll notice addicts roaming about. most of them keep to themselves and do their own thing. They stay off the main commercial areas and tend to veer into small pockets of residential. There's just more of it now.
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Harvey, I think you're giving Sim too much credit for a glorified reshuffling of the cards when it comes to the DTES. Sure, he's had the goon squad come out on some random days to clear some people out, only for them to come back the next day, or move somewhere else within the area.

I was just down there on Friday for a comedy show, to me it looks largely the same, the only difference being is the poverty is more spread out into Granville and Yaletown, Kingsway, Olympic Village, further into Strathcona, and funnily enough, now even Burnaby. I've lived in Burnaby for decades now and rarely would see homeless drug addicts in the Brentwood area, now you see them all the time.

I have friends that live up near Barnett/North Burnaby and they're getting break-ins and homeless encampments in the parks along the water in that area. That was never a thing a decade ago. Everything is just more spread out now.

Is that a win? Hardly, in my opinion.
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Is the area still supposed to be shady now?

I pretty much do stuff in that area on a weekly basis -- there is a Hong Kong-style bakery there with crazy good egg tarts, and their bor law bau (pineapple buns) are pretty good too. And of course I shop at T&T as well. The vietnamese restaurant right at Kingsway and Victoria is also a place I go to -- more for the vibe instead of the food LOL~ so I walk all around in that area pretty frequently, and it doesn't seem particularly shady to me -- at least not during day time.
Try the mcdonalds beside it. I feel sorry for the franchise owner and the staff
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Harvey, I think you're giving Sim too much credit for a glorified reshuffling of the cards when it comes to the DTES. Sure, he's had the goon squad come out on some random days to clear some people out, only for them to come back the next day, or move somewhere else within the area.

I was just down there on Friday for a comedy show, to me it looks largely the same, the only difference being is the poverty is more spread out into Granville and Yaletown, Kingsway, Olympic Village, further into Strathcona, and funnily enough, now even Burnaby. I've lived in Burnaby for decades now and rarely would see homeless drug addicts in the Brentwood area, now you see them all the time.

I have friends that live up near Barnett/North Burnaby and they're getting break-ins and homeless encampments in the parks along the water in that area. That was never a thing a decade ago. Everything is just more spread out now.

Is that a win? Hardly, in my opinion.
Is that due to the shuffling though or just the explosion of homelessness and poverty?

Wait till the homeless count numbers come out. It’s gonna be huge compared to the last count.
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The numbers have certainly gone up, guaranteed in fact.

No one wants to address why that has happened. The cold hard truths are harder to swallow, and the needs to fix it are far too burdensome for governments and by extension our societies to undertake.

Most of us are comfortable and able to ignore the problem while it gets worse and worse.

I don't think we're even close to the apex point yet.
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^^ it's the fact that everything is human rights, it's not human rights if you don't contribute to society and only take advantage of it. That's why we can't get anything done. I guess wait a bit more till the economy goes to shit, all the social workers advocates gets fired maybe we can get something done.
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Try the mcdonalds beside it. I feel sorry for the franchise owner and the staff
I think Days Inn is the one beside McDonald's on Victoria and Kingsway. Nanaimo & Kingsways - there is the Eldorado Condo tower ... not too too bad there.
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I've often wondered if homelessness explodes in Van during the winter...it came to mind again in Calgary... I do see homeless people in downtown Calgary but nowhere near the same amount and I haven't explored the area in depth yet... but I can't imagine staying here in the winter outside, I'd be on a bus or whatever to Vancouver to stay the winter if that was me... most hospitable climate we have in Canada.
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I don't see people in downtown Calgary in general.

That place is a ghost town
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.. but I can't imagine staying here in the winter outside, I'd be on a bus or whatever to Vancouver to stay the winter if that was me... most hospitable climate we have in Canada.
And Victoria.
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I've often wondered if homelessness explodes in Van during the winter...it came to mind again in Calgary... I do see homeless people in downtown Calgary but nowhere near the same amount and I haven't explored the area in depth yet... but I can't imagine staying here in the winter outside, I'd be on a bus or whatever to Vancouver to stay the winter if that was me... most hospitable climate we have in Canada.
aka the Ralph Klein technique. He offered bus tickets to Kelowna and Vancouver to Albertan homeless people back in the 90s. It's why we'll never solve homelessness by working on it at a municipal or provincial level, it'll have to be federal.
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The vietnamese restaurant right at Kingsway and Victoria is also a place I go to -- more for the vibe instead of the food LOL
The former Pho Bich?
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The numbers have certainly gone up, guaranteed in fact.

No one wants to address why that has happened. The cold hard truths are harder to swallow, and the needs to fix it are far too burdensome for governments and by extension our societies to undertake.

Most of us are comfortable and able to ignore the problem while it gets worse and worse.

I don't think we're even close to the apex point yet.
At this rate Demolition Man is gonna be more a possibility than just science fiction.
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Try the mcdonalds beside it. I feel sorry for the franchise owner and the staff
I've actually bought stuff from that McDonald's several weeks ago. It isn't the cleanest / brightest, and I think there were 2 homeless dudes inside at the time. But they were just minding their own business, so it didn't bother me. I almost wanted to use the washroom there, but didn't end up doing so. It can't possibly be worse than a Chinese restaurant's washroom though, can it?

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The former Pho Bich?
I dunno what its old name was called -- I just thought it was always the same one.

The vibe there is just awesome -- it is exactly how I have always pictured the stereotypical Vietnamese pho restaurant is LOL~
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I don't see people in downtown Calgary in general.

That place is a ghost town
downtown core is mostly offices, thus being a ghost town outside of bankers hours with little/no retail/entertainment

i don't know how TD square survives tbh.
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