The article was interesting, and the title does say it's talking about hobo culture. As I watch the HN discussion unfold, though, I want to point out that 41% o

The article was interesting, and the title does say it's talking about hobo culture. As I watch the HN discussion unfold, though, I want to point out that 41% of the homeless in the US are families. These folks aren't usually hobos -- hard to get the 4-year-old to run fast enough to catch a freight train. It's a very different lifestyle since families aren't generally throwing off the strictures of society to live in freedom, but instead desperately trying to rejoin. http://www.endhomelessness.org/pages/snapshot_of_homelessness http://www.endhomelessness.org/pages/snapshot_of_homelessnes...