Kalisz Slums

I'm writing a crime story that takes place in Kalisz. I would like to know, from residents, where the poor district of Kalisz is located. More specifically, how long it would take to get from the poor district to the railroads. Thank you to anyone who answers. (Also, I am so happy this forum exists!)

Are you asking if it looks like that in Kalisz?
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I don't think so. Though I've never been in Kalisz.

You certainly are.

Now or historically?

Personally, I only know the bits around the railway station (big and old, due to it once being almost a border town though the current main building is from the PRL era) and the Cathedral. I'd guess the poorest part of town is one of the housing estates.

Just an idea, there are buy/sell websites in Poland. Olx.pl is a well known one, assuming it's still going. That should give an idea of the prices of flats in Kalisz. The cheapest will be in the worst area.

Don`t forget to write about the red roofs in most of the old town. E..,g the perpetrator might runaway from the crime scene jumping over the roof tops and all of them symbolically red............

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In fact, slums do not exist in Poland, at least not like in Africa or South America. There are indeed poorer districts, but they are not districts of poverty and crime, which is the case, for example, in (rich) Germany.

I was surprise to learn that there are still a few flats in Warsaw (across the river) that don't have their own toilet.

Are the toilets in the yard or in the hallway shared by everyone?

I think in the hallways, either one per floor or on half landings. Fortunately getting rarer now.

It was exactly the same in our first apartment in Germany and I would never say that we lived in a slum, but.....in an old building.

One of the first things a neighbour said to me in PL all those years ago (an old lady who spoke English reasonably well) was that the flats we lived in were "slums". They weren't. The only problem is that the residents hadn't looked after the common areas well however this is (or was then) fairly normal in PL.

I've heard there are quite poor conditions in some older buildings in Silesia and of course even an adequate home can become a slum if there's overcrowding.