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They are all over Florida as well and we have horrible human services. I think all the northern cities offer them a bus ticket either out west or down south. I live in downtown Jacksonville and at the one nice downtown park we have there is swarms of them just sitting, begging, and smoking all day long. There is without a doubt substantially more homeless here then when i lived in the northeast.
They are all over Florida as well and we have horrible human services. I think all the northern cities offer them a bus ticket either out west or down south. I live in downtown Jacksonville and at the one nice downtown park we have there is swarms of them just sitting, begging, and smoking all day long. There is without a doubt substantially more homeless here then when i lived in the northeast.
Same here in south FL.
Any nice, public park where one might potentially wanna hang out is overrun by homeless. There's one park in downtown Miami that is quite literally a homeless bum park, where dozens of them just lay about all day...some even set up tents and like...live there.
Hello from a fellow CC resident. I have seen lots of panhandling around Walmart. Other than there, I don't see it. We have been to Arcata and Eureka and don't like them at all. We only go there to shop, that is, when the winter storms aren't causing land slides and flooding. Honestly, the mountain roads here scare me. We do love the nature, and summers are wonderful, BUT my hubby has terrible allergies here, so we can't stay. Have no idea where to go...
Well, allergies would probably rule out anywhere in the South or Midwest. Probably somewhere like Arizona or New Mexico would be good for that?
I remember back in the 80s, FL had published and given out information on how the homeless could move to northern states such as MI since they did not have waiting periods for welfare. But that was really jumped on and they stopped it.
The homeless, or at least panhandlers, are a growing demographic in Colorado Springs.
I can't think of a major intersection in this city where you don't have one or more panhandling for money. These folks don't want work or food (I've asked), only cash.
And they aren't just on one corner, they're at freeway off-ramps set up on each exit. They're bold enough to walk up a yard from your car door and stare you down. The city has tried passing ordinances but it's been ruled they have a right to be there.
The homeless, or at least panhandlers, are a growing demographic in Colorado Springs.
I can't think of a major intersection in this city where you don't have one or more panhandling for money. These folks don't want work or food (I've asked), only cash.
And they aren't just on one corner, they're at freeway off-ramps set up on each exit. They're bold enough to walk up a yard from your car door and stare you down. The city has tried passing ordinances but it's been ruled they have a right to be there.
I went to Tampa Bay/ St. Pete this last week for a family vacation. We were kind of surprised, we were looking for homeless people seeing as it's warm this time of year down there, but there wasn't nearly CO Springs populations. I don't quite know why.
CO Springs is one of the more conservative cities in the nation, so that goes against the whole "liberal city only" deal for homeless populations. I think it must be a local politics/police thing, because if it was weather only, CO would not be a homeless friendly state.
I can tell you this though, the homeless swarms are a big negative for a lot of these western cities. It really made 16th street mall in Denver a place to avoid rather than a place to walk on when I was there. You'd get hit up like 10 times if you walked across downtown. My bro went to Portland and he said it's even worse out there. He was not impressed at all with that city.
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