Rough neighborhoods in Canada.......

[ckhthankgod]

Thanks stotan88. That was more along the lines I was getting at.

[ckhthankgod]

Is that the only one?

[mikeyyc]

Yes. We send all the undesirables to London, EOA. The entire rest of the country is perfect.

[f1000]

from my experiences in Canada, the only really 'rough' neighborhood that stands out is the Eastside of Downtown Vancouver. It's several blocks of unsavory characters walking aimlessly around grafitti-covered buildings & walls. However, "rough" in Canada is not on par with whatever may fall into being "rough" in the US, if that's where you're from/ what you're used to. Canadian cities really do not have the dipilidated, violent-crime ridden ghettos that circle most U.S. cities. Infact, I was surprised how many people (particularly ladies) in Canada's biggest cities (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal) were walking on the city streets seemingly without any concern at various times of the day. Many U.S. cities (their downtowns included) are ghost-towns after 6pm for various reasons, fear of crime being one salient force. Even many small towns in the rural US South have a shocking rough edge or at least can evoke a sense of discomfort, that is not evident elsewhere (Canada).

[Frank_Carbonni]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

OK, then what about cities like:Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Windsor, Quebec City, St. John, NB, Saskatoon, Regina, Ottawa and the 3 cities I named previously.

As far as Winnipeg goes, I would say most neighborhoods directly outside of Downtown, the West End, the North End, and parts of Elmwood.

Elmwood isn't really bad, but it is pretty rough in the sense that if you grow up in the neighborhood, you're going have to do a lot of fighting through your school years. Also, several biker clubhouses are in the area as well.

[ZX14TJ]

In Calgary, a disproportionate amount of violent and property crime is located in the Victoria Park/East Village section of downtown and in the northeast quadrant of the city. With that said, violent crime can and does happen anywhere. Here is a map of 2008 homocides in Calgary...

CBC News In Depth: Calgary Homicides in 2008

[imran]

I'm from Ontario and the closest rough area is probably Malvern. Shootings are becoming shockingly regular there at all times of day. It's really weird because 10 minutes east of Malvern is Pickering, which has petty crime at the most although there have been some shootings here and there.

[k8swirl]

In Edmonton, the "roughest" is probably just east and northeast of the downtown..so Boyle, MacAuley, some parts of Alberta Avenue, Fort Rd. They're rough in the sense that there is definitely more crime, but what's really noticible is the drunks passed out all over the place, sometimes you see people shooting up (needles not bullets) in the doorways of buildings and the occassional fist-fight between drunks. Edmonton's homeless population is booming though along with the oil boom. Housing prices (and food and retail prices) are out of the range of a large proportion of even the working population, so it is inevitable that a lot of people come here with dreams of work and end up on the streets.

[stone-ground]

Originally Posted by f1000

from my experiences in Canada, the only really 'rough' neighborhood that stands out is the Eastside of Downtown Vancouver. It's several blocks of unsavory characters walking aimlessly around grafitti-covered buildings & walls. However, "rough" in Canada is not on par with whatever may fall into being "rough" in the US, if that's where you're from/ what you're used to. Canadian cities really do not have the dipilidated, violent-crime ridden ghettos that circle most U.S. cities. Infact, I was surprised how many people (particularly ladies) in Canada's biggest cities (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal) were walking on the city streets seemingly without any concern at various times of the day. Many U.S. cities (their downtowns included) are ghost-towns after 6pm for various reasons, fear of crime being one salient force. Even many small towns in the rural US South have a shocking rough edge or at least can evoke a sense of discomfort, that is not evident elsewhere (Canada).

I agree with Robynator and f1000. Although I can only speak of experience in Vancouver.

Although we have some unsavoury neighbourhoods, and wouldn't like to be walking around some of them nightly, have always thought if I had a flat tire or breakdown somewhere, it wouldn't be likely that it would be life-threatening.

Unless it was at the wrong place at the wrong time, but that can happen anywhere.