Unhealthy, terrible living conditions, overcrowded, demoralized, vulnerable.... and yet? This issue is so obvious. And I completely forgot about it for such a long time. 1047 homeless people died out of 52,765, in Los Angeles, in 2019. In 2020 in L.A., less than 1000 died. By 2021 the population is estimated at 161,548.
If you try to find out how many how many covid deaths there are in 2021 so far among that population, the figure is mysteriously absent in online articles. It appears to me that the homeless people in Los Angeles have not cooperated with the pandemic death toll very well at all. If you go to L.A now after not being there for a few years, the place swarms with street dwellers like a stirred up ant colony. It is like WW Z without the zombies.
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The chronically homeless are a resilient lot.
The actual homeless numbers are much bigger. The data doesn't account for working homeless and retirees. We live free out in RVs and campgrounds and on empty owned land. Its a healthy and wholesome life style if you can work and keep your nose clean. The working homeless outnumber the derelicts of the cities, but they spread out and don't report to socialist programs and don't take handouts, so its a nearly invisible population.
Its a good life. Simple. But I didn't downsize to this. Mileage may vary. Literally.
If you do it, I recommend picking up empty rural land, cheap acreage. An acre somewhere peaceful for winters, and acre somewhere peaceful for summers.
and some kind of storage unit that is undetectable from the air or ground. Preferably an underground unit
Nevada has shit tons. 1 acre 1800 bucks to hundreds of acres cheap.
I would love to go that route. Just sell it all and disappear.
seriously considering it.
True. But I did hit rock bottom at a point, and this is just the progress back up, so far. For me, my thinking on this is not from the outside looking in. There is definitely a difference between, "hipster vacation", retirees, "houseless functional", people having a tough run of luck and needing help -- and then the fully "derelict". I consider it all related based on my experience with tbe homeless. Even hipster vacationers are running on fumes if they think #vanlife is going to save them from a broken system and dysfunctional society. It aint. Eventually the regurgitations of #vanlifers sounds a lot like "you will own nothing, and you will be happy."
Infact, it all leads back to that global vision. Like so many other problems today.
I will buy land, as much as I can in my lifetime. But no houses.
Agreed I'm a trucker. Don't own a home anymore. Never there. I'm not homeless!
ARI Legacy sleeper or just a regular longnose with a standard sleeper cab?
I just bought my 65 yr old parents a small rv to do just this. They spend Winters in Florida and Spring/Summer here in beautiful NW Arkansas.
A lot of homeless live a "van life" out if their smaller but still rolling home vehicles.
Of unlive under a bridef u are homeless. If you have a camper, well you have a home.