Death Of A Gay Ghetto 15

Submitted yesterday by a reader in Vancouver, Canada:

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In regards to Vancouver, many of your past posts came to mind, I recall you writing about gays or people in general finding a city so expensive that they will become roommates at a later age, barter for services...anything to get by in general. Well that is what Vancouver has quickly become and it's too late to go back now in my opinion......I cannot believe how many people I run into with all kinds of degrees working a minimum 2 jobs, not unusual for people to have 4 part time jobs...just to get by with the fear of missing one pay cheque or spending too much going out for dinner and it putting them out.

 Many in denial too...best place on earth and all that. Everyone looks exhausted, you don't see people smiling or laughing, people seem too tired to know what to do with their lives and the drugs are absolutely rampant on the street.

 ...the 'rich' are keeping low and almost hiding, the poor are complaining big time and getting all kinds of handouts (like free tickets to movies, ski trips in the winter anything to keep them off the street) the squeaky wheel gets the grease type of deal and the working class are slowly showing signs of a revolt, doing their best but their best is slowly eroding and not enough anymore. It's not paying to follow the rules.

NO gay scene here at all. None. I'm hearing from friends that even just getting together needs to be scheduled so far ahead depending on work schedules and then they are exhausted when they meet up.

 Professionals are not accepting jobs as they can't buy a home here, and families are leaving town. They showed on the news people camping out in line to buy a condo in fucking Abbotsford. People here are obsessed with having a condo like it will be a lottery winning when in fact they will be working 100 hours a week to pay for a box that will eventually leak. When the crash comes, it will go down hard.

FuelMix says:

1.   There's not much more we can add to our already comprehensive analysis of Gay Vancouver, a microcosm of much larger social and economic issues in a "city" that is still touted as "Best Place In The World To Live". It's a claim that rings increasingly hollow and laughable - yet Denial runs very deep, not only as we discovered when we pointed things out, but as the reader who submitted this report alluded.

2.   12 years ago, we started warning anyone who would listen that there would be a convergence of economic, corruption, Chinese immigrant, development, lousy law enforcement, crime, homelessness and drug factors in Vancouver that would crush the Gay Ghetto in the West End,  force people out of the area AND trigger city-wide wealth and income inequality of astounding proportions.

3.   As usual, we were told that we were "racist" - and that our comments lacked social sensitivity.

4.   We will simply end this post by observing that the drug-fucked descent of the two-block Faggot Ghetto in particular, and a city in deep denial in general, is proceeding as predicted and on schedule.

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