[Puffer Fish]

Los Angeles

Not far away from the downtown, it looks like some slum in a Latin American country. The homeless encampments stretch for many blocks.
Not just one area. He keeps driving and driving, and you just keep seeing more slums taking up the entire sidewalks.

Empty luxury high-rises sit towering in the background. Most of them constructed just a few years ago.


Philadelphia

This is a video footage taken while driving through a bad neighborhood in Philadelphia.
It almost looks like a post-apocalyptic future.


For those of you not in North America, this WILL be the future of Europe.

[wat0n]

Los Angeles

Not far away from the downtown, it looks like some slum in a Latin American country. The homeless encampments stretch for many blocks.
Not just one area. He keeps driving and driving, and you just keep seeing more slums taking up the entire sidewalks.

Empty luxury high-rises sit towering in the background. Most of them constructed just a few years ago.

That looks way better than a Latin American slum...

[Puffer Fish]

That looks way better than a Latin American slum...

Always the optimist, eh?

This isn't the United States of the 60s.

[wat0n]

Always the optimist, eh?

This isn't the United States of the 60s.

I'm not an optimist, this is how a Chilean slum in Santiago looks like.

LA's skid row looks way better.

[Puffer Fish]

How long do you think it will be until we start seeing these slums in England, France, and Germany?

[wat0n]

How long do you think it will be until we start seeing these slums in England, France, and Germany?

Like skid row? I think you already can. Ask Europeans if that's the case.

[Rancid]

Agree, a slum in the DR looks far worse than that.

[Pants-of-dog]

Also, the Santiago slums smell a lot worse too.