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It was so popular that it crashed googles servers on the day that it launched.

It took them 2 days to get the load under control, but it's up now and seems to be running just fine, I took it for a spin just now.

I could see this getting pretty addictive, you want to know who owns your street and what you can grab while the getting is good

Check the video, there is one very viral aspect to it that will keep people coming back for more, day after day after ....

If you want to check it out, go on over to MonopolyCityStreets.com

Maclean's recently published this article on the most notorious slum in Canada getting a millionaire makeover - Vancouver's Skid Row in Downtown Eastside.

The Pacific Hotel on Main Street is coming down. Next door Ginger the new condo building is selling for as high as $900,000. The unthinkable is happening....Vancouver's Downtown Eastside is quietly disappearing. The sold signs are everywhere - most along Hastings Street, ground zero of the city's drug and homelessness crises.

In the past 24 months hundreds of lots have changed hands as developers and speculators snap up deeds to the Vancouver's so-called final frontier. And some of Vancouver's biggest players have bought in, including Holborn, the group behind the $500 million Residences at Ritz-Carlton: Westbank Projects, developers of the Shangri-La, the city's tallest tower and Macdonald Development Corp, which hopes to erect the Downtown Eastside's first high rise. Concord Pacific is building a glass tower along Hasting's seediest stretch. Then there's Salt, a chic charcuterie in Blood Alley.

Yep, there's gold in them tar blighted alleys!

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