Those areas are little better than hellholes, but people cannot escape from them: they have no alternative accommodation because of the housing crisis.
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With the noise and dust, every pit was ahellhole.
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The argument was clear that neither of us should be employed in the pits because they were hellholes and were not desirable places for people to work.
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It becomes his choice to make the world ahellholeof debauchery or to keep as it is.
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