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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I was joking with my libtard co worker that the only good that could have come from this was the Seattle homeless population being destroyed. Nope thriving as good as ever.
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.