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Agreed.

In developed countries, however, such scenes are quite the thing of the past. Even the worst parts are nothing like this.

With the notable exceptions of the English-speaking parts of it.

Thus the term Anglo-disease. Imho.

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by redstar on Wed Feb 13th, 2008 at 03:28:19 PM EST
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by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Wed Feb 13th, 2008 at 03:41:12 PM EST
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The US may be a wealthy country but it does have 3rd-world levels of inequality. It's quite shocking.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 13th, 2008 at 05:26:09 PM EST
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Not the English speaking parts in general. I doubt that Canada, Australia or NZ have anything like Detroit and, while there are some blighted bits of Britain (Liverpool for example), there's nothing as grotesque as Detroit or Baltimore here.

This sort of abandonment of urban cores is an exclusively Stateside phenomenon I think.

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Luke

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by silburnl on Thu Feb 14th, 2008 at 07:56:32 AM EST
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