Yeah, personally i really hate the gangsta persona that everyone is trying to pick up these days, but the fact is is that, no matter how good a country's economy is doing, there will ALWAYS be poverty and crime, no matter how you slice it. Im sure canada has bad ghettos, as america does. And for every little suburban white kid acting tough, there is a black man trying to put food on the table. That being said, there is alot of welfare abuse and general laziness, but still there is alot of people just trying to get out of the hood. Its not always through legitimate ways, i mean, its a very bad place. I went to a football game in a pretty rough part of the city, high school, and some dispute over money turned into a 16 year old shooting a 17 year old in the face with a 9mm. I was standing about 30 feet away at the concessions booth and watched it unfold. That kind of bullshit happens quite often in many parts of the city which is the #1 poorest and #7 most dangerous, and i can see why these kids want to get the fuck out of there.