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dntsdad

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Did some driving around today. Was on and off three local highways and some surface streets.

I noticed homeless setups like never before. The 41 freeway is a freeway through the middle of Fresno and I have never seen homeless people just setup with tents, easy ups, etc. on the sides of the banks before. I must have seen 30 today. Probably more. Then on other freeways as well around town.

Driving around town, I saw at least another 40 more. A few setup right in a grocery store strip mall.

I was in a variety of areas of town and it was everywhere. Obviously, moreso in lower middle to lower valued areas but I still saw a few with 400k homes around.

My son was with me and says that he see them like that in his area as well. He is about 45 miles from me.

Just curious if this is something that others are seeing in their areas or no if you live in a city/urban area?
 
Yes. Anchorage zombie population has gone up an order of magnitude in the last 5 years or so.

And yes, they die.
 
I see a tent every once in a while around here not really what you'd a camp. In Los Banos I see them at the park on Pacheco and 7th.
 
Yes. Seattle is a shit hole. Homeless people all over the fucking place/they camp on city property (read: side walks) so they can't get kicked out.

I live about 60 miles north of the Seattle shit hole, have seen a large increase of homelessness around here as well.

Edit: A couple weeks back we had to call the cops on people fucking behind the dumpster at work. Middle of the day and it was hot, temperature wise (for us). People getting on the freeway had to have been able to see everything.
 
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Urban campers EVERYWHERE in Portland. Fucking makes me sick.
 
That's what happens when you shut down a service based economy for what almost 6months now with no end in sight? People lose thier jobs, blow through their savings, and end up homeless, but hey if we save one boomer in their 70s with 5 comorbilities, it is all worth it.
 
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yeah, i dunno about the last few months but this year in general has been worse than last than last than last it seems.

but they don't really die here. we had about 3 camps catch fire during a 2 week period a little bit ago. that was fun, usually they don't make such big fires
 
Slander said:
That's what happens when you shut down a service based economy for what almost 6months now with no end in sight? People lose thier jobs, blow through their savings, and end up homeless, but hey if we save one boomer in their 70s with 5 co comorbilities, it is all worth it.
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there is some of that, there is also a bunch of closures of the services for those groups and the complete destruction of policing
 
M92PV4U said:
I see a tent every once in a while around here not really what you'd a camp. In Los Banos I see them at the park on Pacheco and 7th.
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I guess I consider it a camp if you have a tent, some sort of shelter, chairs, etc. "permanent" that this person is coming back to

Not just some dude crashed under a tree.

I didn't get on the 99 today. You live out that way. Haven't seen anything? Son was saying he sees it all over now but he pretty much drives all over the valley for work all day
 
I used to do more than my share helping the homeless.. especially the mentally ill homeless..

I got involved through a job I had for a few years.. when I worked at the Austin State Hospital..

the camps could be much larger, and Im all for letting them build these camps..

ya'll dont need me to read ya'll off some stats.. they are pretty easy to find..

the worst part is lookin for stats on homeless veterans..
 
dntsdad said:
I guess I consider it a camp if you have a tent, some sort of shelter, chairs, etc. "permanent" that this person is coming back to

Not just some dude crashed under a tree.

I didn't get on the 99 today. You live out that way. Haven't seen anything? Son was saying he sees it all over now but he pretty much drives all over the valley for work all day
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Man I'm a Hermit I don't go anywhere unless I have to. I haven't been to fresno since this started and try to stay off the main roads. I have noticed more homeless or here (Dos Palos) they stay in the motels wondering around. Saturday I saw a woman walking backwards down the sidewalk holding her bags to her stomach looking straight ahead in lb.
 
Blame Mexico.

In San Diego it's heroin, according to the city workers that have to clean up after them. They trash the streets in downtown, near the bay, around the corner from the airport, just everywhere. The walk to the SD Padres stadium a few years ago was an eye opener for me... every block had more than one tent camp. Alcohol was the thing I suspected at that time.

Srsly tho, isn't it better than 50% users and drunks living on the sidewalks, or what.
 
trampas said:
Blame Mexico.

In San Diego it's heroin, according to the city workers that have to clean up after them. They trash the streets in downtown, near the bay, around the corner from the airport, just everywhere. The walk to the SD Padres stadium a few years ago was an eye opener for me... every block had more than one tent camp. Alcohol was the thing I suspected at that time.

Srsly tho, isn't it better than 50% users and drunks living on the sidewalks, or what.
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Last year we went to Hollywood horror night at Universal studios they had needle depositories in the restrooms. I think most around here are meth addicts but have delt with a person smoking oxycodone.
 
30 whole tents? Must be awful :flipoff2:

The Santa Ana riverbed is about 1.5 mile from my place. It was finally cleared out a while back. Amazingly, once it was cleared out stuff stopped disappearing from the back of my work truck. L.A. is far worse. Enjoy:

 
Don’t get out much? Been that way in downtown Fresno for last few years.

Drive up up and down 99 most overpasses have people living under them. Lodi has them everywhere. I work in Stockton, some farmers fields have tents in them. Sad.
 
I haven't been through Portland in over a year but it was tent city anywhere there was grass.

I have seen a handful of people obviously living in vehicles but last night I saw my first tent locally. Just one but it still surprised me, we don't have the visible homeless population big cities deal with as a rule.
 
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Hooligan said:
Don’t get out much? Been that way in downtown Fresno for last few years.

Drive up up and down 99 most overpasses have people living under them. Lodi has them everywhere. I work in Stockton, some farmers fields have tents in them. Sad.
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No, i know that about 99. You just dont see it much on 41, 168 and 180. Today they were all over. I travel 180 and a tiny section of 99 everyday.

Its really grown over the last few weeks, and every one of them had a trash debris field of 10 yards it seemed.
 
Slander said:
That's what happens when you shut down a service based economy for what almost 6months now with no end in sight? People lose thier jobs, blow through their savings, and end up homeless, but hey if we save one boomer in their 70s with 5 comorbilities, it is all worth it.
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It was broken and fucked before. In the 70s, wages stagnated, in the 90s - savings. In 2010 the middle class fully fell apart. Pre-Covid, 80% of Americans lived paycheck to paycheck. 75% struggled to pay for basics like water, food, energy and healthcare. Aber 25% had more than 1000 in savings for some emergency. The average American died in debt.

Corona only focused American problems. It did not cause them. But go ahead, find your scapegoat pandemic and scream "It's the socialists fault!!!"

Because well, the opposite is true.
 
It didn't used to be like this. So what changed? Laws changed. Corrupt liberal politicians threw out hygiene and decency in favor of virtue signal.
 
ev13wt said:
It was broken and fucked before. In the 70s, wages stagnated, in the 90s - savings. In 2010 the middle class fully fell apart. Pre-Covid, 80% of Americans lived paycheck to paycheck. 75% struggled to pay for basics like water, food, energy and healthcare. Aber 25% had more than 1000 in savings for some emergency. The average American died in debt.

Corona only focused American problems. It did not cause them. But go ahead, find your scapegoat pandemic and scream "It's the socialists fault!!!"

Because well, the opposite is true.
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You just rattled off a bunch of personal finance choices and headline talking points. Cant afford it, dont buy, cant afford kids, keep your legs shut, cant get a high paying job, get some skills, low savings, dont buy a bunch of bullshit and save some money.

Never said it was the socialists fault, it was the authoritarian state governments fault.

FYI the USA has been a socialist country since the early 1900s, so yes I guess in a way it is a socialism problem, we should go back to our free market, liberty focused, capitalistic roots.
 
ev13wt said:
It was broken and fucked before. In the 70s, wages stagnated, in the 90s - savings. In 2010 the middle class fully fell apart. Pre-Covid, 80% of Americans lived paycheck to paycheck. 75% struggled to pay for basics like water, food, energy and healthcare. Aber 25% had more than 1000 in savings for some emergency. The average American died in debt.

Corona only focused American problems. It did not cause them. But go ahead, find your scapegoat pandemic and scream "It's the socialists fault!!!"

Because well, the opposite is true.
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I agree with your 1st paragraph, poor money choices is key, but hugely inflationary policies basically forced people to take on debt, if the county forces excessive building codes, and sqft minimums to protect property values to inflate income taxes, then bought politicians open our borders, driving down labor costs, raising healthcare, insurance and taxes on the working man, and soaking up cheap housing, then lending 100% or higher ltv to anybody that can fog a mirror, and 5 out of 10 people bid housing up on borrowed money, it doesn't leave much of a choice for the other half but to rent or buy inflated housing

The economy was rolling over before swine rona, this is a false flag to finish off the crash, justify a crony bailout, and the bankers and politicians walk without blame

rinse and repeat

this has been on the works for a while, probably why Germany asked for their gold back....
 
ev13wt said:
It was broken and fucked before. In the 70s, wages stagnated, in the 90s - savings. In 2010 the middle class fully fell apart. Pre-Covid, 80% of Americans lived paycheck to paycheck. 75% struggled to pay for basics like water, food, energy and healthcare. Aber 25% had more than 1000 in savings for some emergency. The average American died in debt.

Corona only focused American problems. It did not cause them. But go ahead, find your scapegoat pandemic and scream "It's the socialists fault!!!"

Because well, the opposite is true.
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And yet, most all of this is in... wait for it... wait... Democratic controlled cities and or states.

I read an article a few days ago that talked about how the Mexican drug cartels are at an all time record smuggling drugs like meth and fentanyl across our border. I’d say addictive heavy drugs play a key roll in much of this also. People can’t afford to pay rent but sure can find a way to stuff poison in their body.
 
I don't see any, this is Canada......Trudeau puts them up in hotels.
 
People living paycheck to paycheck is not new, you can go back 100 years and find the same thing...Picture the food lines during the Great Depression of the 1930's, Long lines of mostly men in shabby clothes waiting for bread and soup. They are looking for work doing anything ...Picture today, long lines of late model cars/SUV's , driver and children on their smart phones waiting for boxes of food.....
 
Truckedup said:
People living paycheck to paycheck is not new, you can go back 100 years and find the same thing...Picture the food lines during the Great Depression of the 1930's, Long lines of mostly men in shabby clothes waiting for bread and soup. They are looking for work doing anything ...Picture today, long lines of late model cars/SUV's , driver and children on their smart phones waiting for boxes of food.....
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When our school district closed down for the rona this spring, they kept offering free lunches for families in need. It didn’t take long and we were getting complaints about farm moms pulling up in brand new diesel crew cab trucks to pick up 5 free lunches for their kids.
 
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