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Originally posted by Cynthetiq
NYC... the Bronx just had the longest period of no gun violence the other week, in a decade.
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Wow.. how embarassing to be the dick that broke that.
Anyway, I live in a town of about 250,000 people called Markham, Ontario. It is overall a very quiet and peaceful town, but we have a few gang-banger wannabes that create problems. However, we share a border with 'downtown' Toronto, and as a result get a ton of violent crimes occuring in our town, and unbelievably close-by.
The layering for my city/area as you get closer to Lake Ontario goes Markham, Scarborough, Toronto. Toronto is the true downtown where there's skyscrapers and bums. Markham is the american dream. There's no other way to put it... subdivisions, schools, smiling faces and ample parking.
Scarborough, however, is the buffer zone from hell. I'm sad to say it is closely linked to the middle-eastern population. The sri lankans and tamils are some of the most violent criminals that I have ever seen in my life. Using their religion as an excuse, they carry scimitars and machetes, and they use them. It's scary. I hate being on foot in any part of Scarborough, and I won't be if I can help it. I have been robbed at knifepoint there twice, and I am constantly accosted.
Also, though... I don't know how many of you heard about the Cecilia Zhang occurances, but that was my town.