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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 2745953" data-attributes="member: 2093">Poorer neighborhoods will have flophouses and communal apartments, abandoned buildings, once-fine structures now run down and turned to new uses. Tiny little chapels instead of fine churches. Soup kitchens. Whorehouses and gambling dens. Something that was once a park and is now controlled by gangs or something else dangerous.Frequently poor neighborhoods are in industrialized zones, so you might have butchers and slaughterhouses, leatherworkers and tanners, dyers, laundries and other industries that produce noxious fumes and noise that would not be tolerated in better neighborhoods. Old warehouses (maybe used by smugglers, or just abandoned or used for lesser value merchandise). No sewers, no running water - so wells where the women gather to fetch water, chat and bathe, children playing untended in the streets because both parents labor, or because they are orphaned. Many beggars, homeless, crippled and otherwise "outcast" peopole.If your society has an outcaste group, then even if they are not poor, they may be forced to live in such a neighborhood, so there would be small clusters of these folk struggling to improve their living standard. They might have enclaves of middle-class shops and craftsmen among the worse streets.</blockquote>