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10-04-2010, 10:40 PM
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Location: Moose Jaw, in between the Moose's butt and nose.
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People how beg with signs on the highway off ramps: West Coast thing?
Just wondering. I used to travel a lot and never saw this, back East. Seen it all the time in the metro areas on the West Coast. While I haven't done a lot of traveling back East in the last 2 years....I've never have seen this in Atlanta or Nashville, the only 2 places, I've been to back east recently.....is there some truth to this?
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10-04-2010, 10:54 PM
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Location: Dallas, Texas
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I see it in Dallas all the time.
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10-04-2010, 11:09 PM
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Location: Cleveland bound with MPLS in the rear-view
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There's one at my exit to my street here in Minneapolis.
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10-04-2010, 11:12 PM
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i dont see it all the time, but it's not completely unheard of here in Memphis. I've seen it in Toronto too, in the middle of winter.
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10-04-2010, 11:31 PM
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Location: Rose Capital of The World
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Quote:
Originally Posted by beenhereandthere
Just wondering. I used to travel a lot and never saw this, back East. Seen it all the time in the metro areas on the West Coast. While I haven't done a lot of traveling back East in the last 2 years....I've never have seen this in Atlanta or Nashville, the only 2 places, I've been to back east recently.....is there some truth to this?
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Haha its a very common sight in Austin & Houston. |
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10-04-2010, 11:46 PM
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Location: New Orleans, United States
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Very common sight in New Orleans and Baton Rouge as well.
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10-05-2010, 12:28 AM
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Location: Moose Jaw, in between the Moose's butt and nose.
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I imagine that there are, occasionally, people who are really in dire straits who honestly need it. However, I've read, in Portland, that some of them work in teams and a few of them even have regular jobs, and use that to supplement income. That spoils it for the sincere people...
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10-05-2010, 12:31 AM
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Location: Cold Frozen North
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I've seen it here in the Chicago area several times in the last few years.
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10-05-2010, 01:37 AM
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Location: Sprackramento metro
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No the weather is just nicer so they never go away...
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10-05-2010, 03:36 AM
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Location: Denver, CO
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Here in Denver, it's a revolving door of seemingly "former middle-class people fallen on hard times" at I-25 N at Hampden Ave. 
In Riverside, CA at the CA-91 E exit for Tyler St, it's everybody from old people to teens begging at the off-ramp, mainly because there's an endless supply of deep-pocketed people heading for the mall.
Spokane, WA has em at the off-ramp leading to downtown.
That covers three different latitudes out west, so it is pretty prominent out here. |
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