Would you rather be homeless in Dublin or L.A.?

corner of hells · 18-02-2019 07:49PM

Odhinn wrote: »

Skid row in LA is like a third world disaster zone. There's also people living in the storm drain system.

I do believe there are people living in drains in Paris too.

Richard Hillman · 18-02-2019 07:51PM

Homeless on a Pacific Island

Jurgen Klopp · 18-02-2019 08:31PM

Wouldn't fancy California for example San Francisco

Lots of rich people virtue signalling about the poor and how they need to be helped then demanding the city council or whatever you call it basically sweep away all teh homeless and their tents cause the sight offends them

Check out for example "tech bro" a proper little arse hole

18-02-2019 08:39PM

Parts of Canada are pretty bad as well. Vancouver is pretty scary and a small city I was in had a beautiful yacht club and Marina near the nice street with bars and restaurants then the next street over had a couple of hundred homeless with shopping trolleys, tents made from bedsheets, open defecation, all the good stuff.

zapitastas · 18-02-2019 08:45PM

spurious wrote: »

I think many of the L.A. homeless try to get to S.F., which certainly had better homeless facilities about 15 years ago. Not so sure about now.

San Francisco is full of homeless people mainly due to changes in the way in which people with mental health issues were treated. Also I think I read somewhere that they were trialing robots in SF to move homeless and undesirable people on from areas where people didn't want to view them

mad muffin · 18-02-2019 09:19PM

Dubai

Mad_maxx · 18-02-2019 09:49PM

Sleepy wrote: »

Anyone answering LA is an idiot tbf.

There's a bed for anyone who wants one in Dublin and if you've kids you're more likely to be put up in a hotel than a hostel. We have one of the most generous welfare systems in the world and, while the HSE is as far from perfect as Dublin is from LA, we do have socialised healthcare.

In L.A., you'll be on the street in a country with a gun fetish, little or no government support and a healthcare system that abandons those with serious mental health problems to homelessness if they can't afford to pay for expensive private healthcare.

The same thing that happened the mentally unwell in America, also happened here, at the behest of liberals, the old mental institutions were closed down, thus leaving those unfortunate people to fend for themselves, the result was a huge increase in both prison rates and homeless figures

Mad_maxx · 18-02-2019 09:50PM

zapitastas wrote: »

San Francisco is full of homeless people mainly due to changes in the way in which people with mental health issues were treated. Also I think I read somewhere that they were trialing robots in SF to move homeless and undesirable people on from areas where people didn't want to view them

You can thank liberals for that

One flew over the cuckoo's nest was a huge influence on policy

Hedgelayer · 18-02-2019 10:29PM

LA because half the celebs dress like tramp's anyhow, it would be easy enough to fit in.

fatknacker · 18-02-2019 10:56PM

LA seems to have a lot more scary violent shouty people. I'd probably be less likely called a "cracker assed bitch" in Dublin and get the AIDS put into me.
Not to say there aren't scary skangers here too, but much less so.

I'm not sure I'd be interested in the hostels here though. As far as I'm concerned criminal gangs love them.

They keep their customers and foot soldiers in food and warmth meaning there's a constant supply to peddle their wares around the city.

Good luck to you if you're trying to stay off the dope. You'll be put in a room with 2/3 or more active users. Addict factories.

Manic Moran · 19-02-2019 07:46AM

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

Wouldn't fancy California for example San Francisco

Lots of rich people virtue signalling about the poor and how they need to be helped then demanding the city council or whatever you call it basically sweep away all teh homeless and their tents cause the sight offends them

Check out for example "tech bro" a proper little arse hole

It’s not so much that the sight offends them, but the problem is now starting to bite into their bottom lines. SF is beginning to get a poor rep with tourists and, more importantly, conventions, who are now moving somewhere else. The begging is getting so aggressive that convention goers plain feel unsafe. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/07/02/big-convention-pulls-out-san-francisco-citing-unsafe-streets/ We have a poop app, for crying out loud, so that residents can avoid stepping in human faeces as they go about their business. My wife had a great little flat... she just had to pay $2,400 a month for the 700sq footer in the Tenderloin where she had to walk over junkies on the way to her office.

I’m in SF right now, as it happens, did a quick stop off. Every time I come here since I moved to Texas a few months ago, I am reminded of what the homeless problem here is like. Malodorous folk on the train car, panhandling or begging... I don’t know what it is they are doing right in Texas, but i’m seeing far less of it in San Antonio. https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/homeless/san-antonios-homeless-solution-used-as-national-model/281-197477103 The population figures (esp in an unsheltered-homeless-to-population ratio) are also in The Alamo City’s favour, regardless of the Bay Area’s reputation may be for being the caring sort compared to Texans.

Outlaw Pete · 19-02-2019 07:48AM

LA, long summers and short winters.

Atoms for Peace · 19-02-2019 09:15AM

Down and out in Paris and London.

Would you rather be homeless in Dublin or L.A.?

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