On 1/10/2018 7:20 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 1/10/2018 6:39 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2018-01-10 3:06 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>
>>> Friends of mine went to Times Square (or whatever it's called: where
>>> that big clock is). They loved it. But they also said: "If you turn
>>> the wrong corner twice, you're in the third world."
>>>
>>> Is that true? Well, they wouldn't lie.
>>
>> I had a similar experience in Washington DC. We went by the White
>> House and a few blocks later I made a left instead of a right and
>> ended up in a slum.Â* I was the only one who actually stopped at a red
>> light, and nearby there was a corner store with a bunch of cop cars
>> and a body on the ground. OTOH, there was lots of really nice stuff.
>>
>>
> Pretty much every big city has a section like that.Â* The bigger the
> city, the bigger the slum.


Um...it's next to the entire nation's seat of power....that's creepy....