True dat. Yet, that is how the cancer starts spreading. There were only pockets of despair in Detroit in 70s.... it was a steady downhill from thereon out, with a small upward blip.

Also, many Americans, who have not travelled the world, fail to grasp that there are whole nations where you don't have a single street like that. In USA, you have plenty of areas like that, and not just in Kensington and Skid Row.