sadly, no videos taken
east hastings is a meme, especially amongst relatively successful people, source of snobbery you know? like 'oh these east hasting people blabla'. or like i followed a twitter account that would report crimes in vancouver based on police radio station I think, in a format of CRIME + STREET and anytime something happened on east hasting people would comment like 'ah classic east hastings', 'not surprised' etc
it's not scary TO ME, for me it's like an adventure and sight-seeing and just flavors of life; but yeah I knew people who were uncomfortable, and I understand them - the rest of vancouver is very vanilla, it's like kindergarten and then you're hit with this shit - junkies, people dressed like shit, behaving like chimps sometimes, occasional crazy shouting etc.
I went to uni there for bachelor degree
never had any problem with criminal there, in fact I'm happy something like that exists, makes it handy when you want to get something
oh and yeah, like canadian posters above said, vancouver has a very very very mild climate, especially compared to rest of canada, so homeless people congregate there. I think some of them even come to vancouver for colder time of the year, and then they migrate back to wherever.
