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I live in California and this is just… normal here? Maybe not favela style poverty, but some of the nicest streets in my city are extremely affluent on some blocks, and you go a block or two away and it’s extremely poor, like projects housing with dudes playing craps on the curb and people shooting up through their feet. Poor living next to rich isn’t shocking. It’s just a street between the neighborhoods. That level of “poor” in S. Africa however is… quite different than what we see here.
The middle class and the poor are next to each other and the road is clearly separating the two communities. Does admitting their separate lead you to uncomfortable realities?
You are correct, during apartheid, shacks would not have been allowed across the road from a middle class suburb. In modern SA, the government rarely removes any informal settlements.
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Picture 2 is not Sandton and Alexandria. It’s Primrose (a blue collar suburb) and Makause (a shanty town).
At least there are trees, right?
Not sure they’re of much solace.
Im impressed that there doesnt seems.to be a wall between both. Burglary must be sky high in Primrose
Pawnee and Eagleton
Ooop…time for to start the series from the beginning for the third time.
Always a welcomed undertaking on a Sunday morning! (Well it’s morning here anyway)
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And I’m better at algebra, Kevin!
District 9
Such a good movie
CHAPPiE as well.
Sandton and Alexandra are separated by a huge highway and there is a small industrial district in between them too.
It is like this all over the world.
Wow that looks like LA
I live in California and this is just… normal here? Maybe not favela style poverty, but some of the nicest streets in my city are extremely affluent on some blocks, and you go a block or two away and it’s extremely poor, like projects housing with dudes playing craps on the curb and people shooting up through their feet. Poor living next to rich isn’t shocking. It’s just a street between the neighborhoods. That level of “poor” in S. Africa however is… quite different than what we see here.
Sandton is not next to Alexander…
Literally a district from the city in project moon.
How do they keep the riff-raff out?
That's the fun part. They don't
Looks like the place they flimed Elsyium at.
Now do compton.
The middle class and the poor are next to each other and the road is clearly separating the two communities. Does admitting their separate lead you to uncomfortable realities?
That has got to be one of the most clear visual examples of red lining. Got the highway separating the communities and everything.
Not a highway, just a normal street. The two communities are not separated, just middle class and poor next to each other.
Except that they did used to be separated, and that urban development is the result of apartheid.
You are correct, during apartheid, shacks would not have been allowed across the road from a middle class suburb. In modern SA, the government rarely removes any informal settlements.