Behind all the glittering facade of a city
By Yanzalong
@yanzalong (18984)
Indonesia
October 17, 2017 1:28am CST
The capital city is always viewed as a rich city with tall buildings and other glamour facades. In reality as I noticed this myself, what exists behinds most of the tall buildings is a residential area with slummy huts made out of used broken windows and roof. You will also come across homeless people sleeping at the side of a road. Slummy area are often raided for not occupying the area legal. They have no legal permit to live there.
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@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
@yanzalong Not everybody is rich there but everybody has a home. I have strolled all over Singapore and hash found no homeless people sleeping on the streets.
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@yanzalong (18984)
• Indonesia
18 Oct 17
@toniganzon that's quite the opposite to London, where you will come across homeless people.
@AmbiePam (85492)
• United States
17 Oct 17
That makes me think of the last summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. The government just kept moving the slums and homeless back, trying to get them away from the city because they know it looks bad. You are right about your assessment of big cities. Some are changing for the better, truly working with the homeless population to help them. But some governments think out of sight, out of mind.
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@yanzalong (18984)
• Indonesia
17 Oct 17
There should be projects aimed to help people living in the slums.
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