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Being in Victoria certainly helps with his lifestyle too. It's probably the best city in BC you could hope to be in if you're homeless. It's a nice city, there'

Being in Victoria certainly helps with his lifestyle too. It's probably the best city in BC you could hope to be in if you're homeless. It's a nice city, there's lots of green space, lots of facilities around for the homeless, a relatively small actual homeless population then the tourist homeless population of young people camping for fun. I really doubt he'd be able to maintain that lifestyle anywhere else. Definitely wouldn.t be able to live like that in Vancouver.

jamal-kumar 5y ago
Hi, someone from Victoria who hasn't bothered to live there for a long long time. You used to be able to enjoy nice parks with your kids without worrying about junkies living in nearby tents taking up what used to be sports fields throwing used needles into the playground. Now they put up warning signs for parents to sweep around to make sure that this isn't a problem. https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/victoria-posts-warning-signs-amid-rise-in-needle-injuries-in-city-parks-1.5083724 https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/victoria-posts-warning-si... I'm never going back, it's gotten that bad. I know so many people who have died from overdoses. It would have been a nice place around 12 years ago but after around the Vancouver olympics, the region has turned into some kind of black hole of misery and misambition outside of the wealthy condo social bubble and being on the wrong end of the ensuing wealth disparity. Unchecked money laundering on the housing market was a huge problem leading to this kind of scenario as well. Almost none of my friends who stayed there are the successful and happy ones. Even if you have like two decent blue collar jobs you may still end up living on a friend's couch for long periods of time just for a lack of affordable housing where your neighbors aren't doing shit like moving a stove at 4am because they dropped their flap of fent-adulterated heroin behind it (my own experience in the last apartment I rented before it really went to shit out that way -- that still cost me like 1000/mo) Nice weather means that the rest of frozen canada sends their local problem drunks on greyhounds to live in the only region where they don't get found frozen to death in bus stops. They do this in the USA, too, quite sadly. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-homeless-people-cities-are-bussing-them-out-of-town https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-ho...
- grawprog 5y ago
  Have to admit, it was a few years ago now I was there. I was just mostly comparing it to the situation in Vancouver. A friend of mine lived there for a while before moving back to Edmonton. He described it a lot like what you say. Overpriced, not many jobs. He ended up couch surfing for a bit after he couldn't afford his apartment any more before he ended up leaving. >Nice weather means that the rest of frozen canada sends their local problem drunks on greyhounds to live Sounds like what's happened in the town I live in over the last 2 years or so. The problem's gotten bad. Though it's not so much drunks but fentynyl and meth addicts.

jamal-kumar 5y ago

Hi, someone from Victoria who hasn't bothered to live there for a long long time. You used to be able to enjoy nice parks with your kids without worrying about junkies living in nearby tents taking up what used to be sports fields throwing used needles into the playground. Now they put up warning signs for parents to sweep around to make sure that this isn't a problem. https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/victoria-posts-warning-signs-amid-rise-in-needle-injuries-in-city-parks-1.5083724 https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/victoria-posts-warning-si... I'm never going back, it's gotten that bad. I know so many people who have died from overdoses. It would have been a nice place around 12 years ago but after around the Vancouver olympics, the region has turned into some kind of black hole of misery and misambition outside of the wealthy condo social bubble and being on the wrong end of the ensuing wealth disparity. Unchecked money laundering on the housing market was a huge problem leading to this kind of scenario as well. Almost none of my friends who stayed there are the successful and happy ones. Even if you have like two decent blue collar jobs you may still end up living on a friend's couch for long periods of time just for a lack of affordable housing where your neighbors aren't doing shit like moving a stove at 4am because they dropped their flap of fent-adulterated heroin behind it (my own experience in the last apartment I rented before it really went to shit out that way -- that still cost me like 1000/mo) Nice weather means that the rest of frozen canada sends their local problem drunks on greyhounds to live in the only region where they don't get found frozen to death in bus stops. They do this in the USA, too, quite sadly. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-homeless-people-cities-are-bussing-them-out-of-town https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvg7ba/instead-of-helping-ho...

grawprog 5y ago
Have to admit, it was a few years ago now I was there. I was just mostly comparing it to the situation in Vancouver. A friend of mine lived there for a while before moving back to Edmonton. He described it a lot like what you say. Overpriced, not many jobs. He ended up couch surfing for a bit after he couldn't afford his apartment any more before he ended up leaving. >Nice weather means that the rest of frozen canada sends their local problem drunks on greyhounds to live Sounds like what's happened in the town I live in over the last 2 years or so. The problem's gotten bad. Though it's not so much drunks but fentynyl and meth addicts.