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Check Moritzplatz and Schonleinstrasse and come back here..

We could quibble about "vast", but the difference between Berlin's drug markets and the US's isn't really the intensity, but safety. (Don't totally misunderstand - they're still some of the least safe places in Berlin, but nothing like Kensington - which in turn also not as bad as pearl-clutchers would have you believe.)

Thats not even close.

> Skid Row in San Francisco.

Literal Skid Row is in Los Angeles[1], the figurative skid row in SF is called the Tenderloin [2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_Row,_Los_Angeles

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_row#San_Francisco

Is this the same Berlin I've been to? Many of the parks are literally open air drug markets?!