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View Poll Results: What city in the U.S. do you think would be the best to be homeless?
New York 1 3.33%
Los Angeles 8 26.67%
Chicago 0 0%
Washington DC 0 0%
San Francisco 5 16.67%
Boston 0 0%
Philadelphia 0 0%
Dallas 0 0%
Miami 3 10.00%
Houston 1 3.33%
Atlanta 0 0%
Detroit 0 0%
Seattle 1 3.33%
Phoenix 0 0%
Minneapolis 0 0%
Cleveland 0 0%
Denver 0 0%
San Diego 2 6.67%
Portland, OR 1 3.33%
Orlando 0 0%
St. Louis 0 0%
Tampa 0 0%
Pittsburgh 0 0%
Sacramento 1 3.33%
Charlotte 0 0%
Other 4 13.33%
I don't know 3 10.00%
Voters: 30. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-17-2014, 08:17 PM
 
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What city in the U.S. do you think would be the best to be homeless? Where they have tons of shelters, mass transit, soup kitchens, homeless orginziations and services. And where you won't be hasseled by the cops, the locals, or other homeless.

A little about me - I'm a 37 year old single white male, just lost his job and about to be homeless.

Thanks
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Old 04-17-2014, 09:38 PM
 
Location: East Bay, San Francisco Bay Area
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Los Angeles or San Francisco. Nice weather, relatively, and tolerant of the homeless. Sanctuary cities, also.
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Old 04-17-2014, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Baghdad by the Bay (San Francisco, California)
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Los Angeles or San Francisco. Nice weather, relatively, and tolerant of the homeless. Sanctuary cities, also.
I agree. I'd give the nod to LA because it's usually 5-6 degrees warmer at night.
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Old 04-17-2014, 10:49 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Austin, Texas

Its almost hip to be homeless there.
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Old 04-18-2014, 12:38 AM
 
Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Detroit is on your list? Are you serious? I garuntee you end up a frozen block of meat mid-winter.

I really, really hope you take that kind of stuff into consideration.
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Old 04-18-2014, 09:22 AM
 
Location: Burlington VT Soon to be Pueblo CO
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This is based on my own personal experience in the 90's as a homeless teenager. I bounced around a lot, but the most friendly area to homeless was San Francisco and Berkeley. From what I have read, Berkeley is not the place to be anymore, so I would say San Francisco.
The biggest issue is that you would have to compete with so many other homeless there. SF is a mecca for the homeless, both youth and adults. And the weather is not the best either. I got caught in a 3 day rainstorm with no place to squat (an empty building or shelter that you illegally enter). All my clothes were soaked. I went to a laundromat off from Haight to dry my clothes, and the owner threw all my clothes out of the dryer, and said if I wanted to dry them, I would have to wash them first.
That being said, there are some people in SF who are sympathetic, but I think the system there is being overwhelmed by the homeless population. There are not enough resources.
What you should do is Google homeless camps. There is a fairly large one in Memphis, I believe. For the most part, the people of homeless camps work. You could have your own space, and be able to put your life back together.
I would avoid most of the north between the months of October-April. The cold temps will kill you.
You could also try Las Vegas. They hire people for cash daily to hand out flyers for nude clubs, etc, but you gotta get there early. If you do that, you could have enough for a hotel room daily, albeit not the best.

Good Luck!
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Old 04-18-2014, 09:30 AM
 
Location: The City
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whichever has the best opportunity to find a job quickly and not be homeless
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Old 04-18-2014, 09:41 AM
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Location: Ontario
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Los Angeles, hands down
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Old 04-18-2014, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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LA or San Diego probably.

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whichever has the best opportunity to find a job quickly and not be homeless
Hah-this too unless it is a chosen lifestyle which sometimes seems to be the case.
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Old 04-18-2014, 10:50 AM
 
Location: South Beach and DT Raleigh
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Somewhere warm where you won't freeze to death in the Winter.
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