Homeless on Upper West Side

[stormgal]

Originally Posted by Hannah5555

So homeless (?) drug addicts travel from far and wide to be homeless drug addicts in a city that gets frigid cold in the winter where they have to fight for a bedbug ridden bed every night. Makes zero sense.

I agree. I think that these people - mainly young and from the Midwest or south, were once aspiring to live the NYC life but they simply couldn't make it. A lot of homeless don't look like native NY'ks.

[pierrepont7731]

Originally Posted by Hannah5555

So homeless (?) drug addicts travel from far and wide to be homeless drug addicts in a city that gets frigid cold in the winter where they have to fight for a bedbug ridden bed every night. Makes zero sense.

Makes a lot of sense when you have right to shelter, which is the case in NYC.