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    Quote Originally Posted by kimwy66:
    Toulouse is pretty shit, lots of problems, ghettos. Nice sausages though.
    What about Orillia ? I hear its nice this time of the year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:


    Why Government shouldn't be allowed to build housing projects

    Worst town in Asia - Tim SHui Wai

    It didn't have to be this bad in an affluent city. Such a awful housing estate would NEVER of been built on Hong Kong Island. Out of sight out of mind.
    Wish NYC had public housing as good as this. Heck, would take 50% as good, safe & clean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bunko8:
    Wish NYC had public housing as good as this. Heck, would take 50% as good, safe & clean.
    Luckily most developed countries realise housing 'projects' with the economic segregation of the poor are a terrible idea and policies of social integration have flourished since the late 1980's - but NOT the CCP led Hong Kong Government who seem stuck in 1974 and love throwing up badly connected ghettos for the poor and selling prime plots to the rich.
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    I don't even consider the ones in HK as ghettos. Go to some of the NYC ones, especially at night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bunko8:
    I don't even consider the ones in HK as ghettos. Go to some of the NYC ones, especially at night.
    From Wiki
    A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure.

    As in 'Discovery Bay is the wife swapping ghetto on Lantau'
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    'Yat Tung is a ghetto for the 40,000 people poor living on Lantau'

    The point is the poor are segregated in Hong Kong not that the USA has rougher poor areas.

    Segregating the poor is a terrible policy that helps instill multi-generational poverty.
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    Six years on it's time to reexamine where are cities are on the list of good-to-bad


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    If worst means unattractive simply by cityscape looks..Taiwan (several cities).. distant 2nd, maybe Jakarta


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    My list, in no particular order:

    Lagos, Nigeria
    Port Au Prince, Haiti
    Mogadishu, Somalia
    Tripoli, Libya
    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    No, not been to any of them, just going by reputation and, for at least 3, violence.


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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Luckily most developed countries realise housing 'projects' with the economic segregation of the poor are a terrible idea and policies of social integration have flourished since the late 1980's - but NOT the CCP led Hong Kong Government who seem stuck in 1974 and love throwing up badly connected ghettos for the poor and selling prime plots to the rich.
    Hate em cause you aint em. Segregation is great... for the rich and priveleged

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    Quote Originally Posted by D.YU:
    Hate em cause you aint em. Segregation is great... for the rich and priveleged
    It looks like we are adding further stratification with 'Light Public Housing' to the bottom rung.

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    Wouldn't like to be a teenager living in the 'public housing - lite' and try to fit in

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