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My experience is that the homeless in Chicago are astoundingly robust. I've seen homeless people on Michigan Avenue when it's in the low teens, cup in hand.
by erso 17y ago
My experience is that the homeless in Chicago are astoundingly robust. I've seen homeless people on Michigan Avenue when it's in the low teens, cup in hand.
- dschobel 17y agoRobust implies a positive connotation, I always saw it as desperation. It's one thing to see someone begging on the street-corner. It's a whole other thing to see them out there wrapped in an old wool blanket when it's below zero. One is fairly innocuous for anyone acclimated to big cities, the other one gets you thinking "holy shit, that person is in mortal danger".
- jrockway 17y agoThe sad part is that these people are offered help that is much more substantial than a quarter in a cup, but they don't want to give up their "freedom" to get that help.