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Originally Posted by jon boy
as i work with the homeless, drug addicted and downtrodden i can say that it certainly sounds as if your 'talking out of your ass'. the hiv rate is astounding in this city as is the hep c infection rate. thanks to places like insite that has dropped, as has the overdose death rate. vancouver has the richest and the poorest.
perhaps you should come check it out and see for yourself before making knee jerk reactions that point out your obvious lack of knowledge on the subject. but hey this is the sy gossip forum.
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check it out myself?
how long have you lived in canada? i was a day labourer for years and i've met plenty of vancouver hobos.
when you say the standard of living is lower than some third world countries it's insulting and priviledged as fuck
answer the first question now, where is this standard of living statement coming from
are you saying that vancouver is a bad place because homeless people have a worse standard of living than people with houses in other places? comparing the very worst in one country to the average in another makes no sense. poor people in vancouver have dudes like you who work to help them. the poorest people in iraq had saddam to gas them...which country would you rather live in?
i don't give a fuck about yr first hand experience as i have more than enough of my own.
as an actual immigrant(not a cutie from the colonial mothership like yrself) i can speak pretty confidently that the standard of living in canada is not worse than most places, let alone the third world.
the people you work with, have somebody to help them, if they didn't live in canada they would be probably be dead or in jail.
do your thing to make canada a better place to live, but doin't compare it to the third world because that shit is silly