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Originally Posted by SkinnyPupp
How is the crime in Vancouver and smaller cities like Nanaimo? My sister is in her 50's now and is constantly talking about the crime, and now she's sending me right wing videos about how bad it is. She never ever leaned right until now, and has even hinted about anti vax stuff although she did get the vaccine. I told her she needs to stop paying so much attention to these scary videos and do something else with her time online. I think covid and social media has broken her.
The crime was always pretty bad, and is part of why I left Canada 15 years ago. But that's home and auto crime, she's talking about random stabbings and shit. Is it significantly worse now?
Edit: Looking at the statistics, some places have gone up quite a bit, while others haven't. Nanaimo was always a shithole but it looks practically unlivable now |
It's gotten pretty bad. I head out to Nanaimo for work occasionally but usually I'm passing through so I don't tend to notice much.
Last summer we were on a boating trip up to Comox/Powell River and we were moored for the evening in Nanaimo at the main marina there (beside Maffeo Sutton Park).
God damn I was shocked at how bad it had gotten just walking from the marina to the nearby liquor store, it was sketchy as fuck. We sat on the boat in the evening watching the addicts in the park and the general craziness of it all. I honestly had never seen anything like it in Nanaimo before, but it's much the same in places all over BC right now.
Penticton this year was also the worst I've ever seen it, so it's not just Nanaimo specifically.