When Peter and I started The YO, we took a long walk around Vancouver's East Side - the Main and Hastings and East of there sort of area. It's the worst place in the city for homelessness and heroin addiction and all that fun stuff. It's also a beautiful part of town.
There's wonderful old buildings in the East Side. Big old houses that've existed for almost a hundred years. Hastings has tons of great apartment buildings, built out brick and now home to millions of bedbugs.
It's sad seeing such a great part of town looking so run-down, but on the other hand, it gives the neighbourhood an awesome sort of character. Really, slums tend to just have so much more personality than nice parts of town.
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