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Re:Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Block... by rbobby on Thursday December 27, 2018 @01:58PM (#18771590)
The book Angela's Ashes is a pretty solid read. Life in a poor area of Limerick Ireland.
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Re:Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Block... by DanBC on Thursday December 27, 2018 @03:08PM (#18772195)
The film Ratcatcher (1999) is about a boy growing up in tenements and dreaming of moving out to a new housing development.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171685/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The Scheme is a tv documentary about an estate in Kilmarnock. I don't like programmes like this, but it's not the worst of its kind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X6KfCYJx_g

Poor Kids (2011?) shows children living in poverty in the UK. It's pretty grim for one of the richest nations in the world. Note that austerity started only a couple of years before the programme was shown, and the "bedroom tax" and the benefit cap were introduced after this programme was shown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9aSp9bFmMg https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011vnls

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Re:Powerful Photos of Life in the Old Glasgow Tenement Block... by arethuza on Thursday December 27, 2018 @05:20PM (#18773157)
Bill Forsyth (who went on to make Local Hero) did a nice wee comedy set in Glasgow in the 1970s - That Sinking Feeling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Sinking_Feeling

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