| Comment | there are a lot of roma people around the area between those two streets yes, but they arent even a plurality let alone a majority, let alone is the area some sort of exclusive enclave of them. it looks and feels like any other poor part of glasgow apart from the skin tone is (i guess) slightly darker on average. your "ghetto" contains locavore and the bell jar ffs
that area has an unusually high proportion of very badly kept housing stock even for a city of badly kept housing stock but - as you said - that's entirely due to those immigrants being very easy to exploit (or exploitable to a higher tolerance point) by the worst landlords in the country. even when they arent dozens of people into one-bedroom flats they refuse to maintain anything because what are their tenants going to do about it
the modern use of the word "ghetto" also suggests its full of crime, and while govanhill certainly is from a crime-free zone, if the level of crime in govanhill means its a "ghetto" then pretty much half the city is a "ghetto" |
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