Sly found the changes depressing. From what she knew of Seattle’s history, this area hadn’t been a good place to be after dark around the turn of the century. It was the haunt of drug-users then, not simsense addicts, but the risks were the same—militant kids who’d do anything to get the money to buy what they needed to feed their heads. Then, sometime around 2010, the money had started to flow downhill, north along Broadway. Just a few blocks away was "Pill Hill," the location of many of Seattle’s best hospitals. The infrastructure necessary to support those hospitals—labs, restaurants, good-quality housing, various suppliers, and so on had moved into the Pine and Broadway region, squeezing out the gutterpunks and street apes.