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Is it a West Coast thing?
by frozenport 14y ago
Is it a West Coast thing?
- ekimia87 14y agoIm from NYC, and it does seem like there is a bigger problem here. (or at least more apparent)
- gtani 14y agoI remember the Cleveland Plain Dealer had an article a few years back that said the October count of homeless they (some city or Ohio government entity) did every year, the numbers had dwindled to essentially zero, because there were so many unoccupied houses to take shelter in.
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- stephengillie 14y agoSeattle has about 8 "tent cities", plus the massive Pioneer Square and Belltown homeless mobs.
- philwelch 14y agoBelltown isn't even remotely as bad as Pioneer Square.
- cpressey 14y agoI think you see more homeless on the west coast because it's a little easier to make it through the winter without consistent shelter there. (Compared to, say, Minneapolis.) I haven't actually compared against other places on the continent that have year-round temperate climate, so this is just conjecture.
- mml 14y agoI've always wondered when the nigh indestructible homeless of the frozen north might some day migrate to san francisco and take over.