Do people who drive through my 'hood (dtes) NOTICE us?

it is a good question. sometimes i stop and make a point of looking people in the eye and smiling. sometimes i am too busy or distracted with my own stuff. this applies whether or not i am on 4th ave in the heart of kits or in the heart of the DTES. in all honesty though sometimes i just can't take in the energy of the DTES. i feel a lot of pain down there. that is not to say i don't feel the love too... I have often been amazed and touched by the sense of brotherhoos/sisterhood down there. its just that there is so much pain there too. sometimes if i am feeling particularly low myself it is just too much to hold the space to feel the pain of all the others down there too. those are the times i usually keep driving and pretend that i don't see it all.

Of course they get noticed. If you didn't notice them, then you'd hit them as they stumble zombie like across the road!

@Joe - yeah,  there's a lot of people here who don't care if they live or die.  And a lot of people who live elsewhere who don't particularly care if they live or die either.   I'm sometimes amazed more death-of-zombielike-walkers -by-cars don't happen around here! 

nancy (aka money coach)
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How would you like to be noticed? You've got the gawkers, who are the tourists or others who drive through once a year. Then you have the commuters, who ignore just about everyone (not just the DTES residents). Do you want us to feel compassion? Pity? Just say a friendly "hello", even though we wouldn't even do that in our own communities? Just wanted to make sure you're not expecting something that is absent in the rest of our city.