I was just looking at taking a trip to Austin for the first time and quickly realized they also have a serious homeless problem.
What’s happening to Des Moines?
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It's not as an attractive of a place as it was 10 years ago. It was one of the up and coming cities in America at one time. People are finding that places like Little Rock and Boise aren't as ass backwards as Iowa has become.
San Francisco's record cold is in the 20s. Its not comparable to most of the rest of the country.
At an ISU game a few years ago in the Haunted Forest. We were playing catch on one of the Coldwater Fairways (this was before they put up the chain link fence). A college coed comes up and asks if I mind if she goes to the bathroom. I’m like, “you can do whatever you want to do as I don’t own the property.” She just drops her pants right in front of me and goes. Some drunk college guy pulls his phone out and starts taking pictures. I yelled at him to delete them or I was going to called a deputy friend of mine who was working the game. The gal hugged me and her friends came over and proceeded to go into a sand trap and relieve themselves! WTF!!
Well, did they at least rake the trap after they were done. As long as they followed gold etiquette I guess.
The panhandlers are all over the metro area, West Des Moines, Altoona, etc. One guy I've seen just about every time that I go through a particular intersection for at least the last two years. He should be ready to retire to a mansion in the Caribbean by now.
There are homeless people everywhere in Billings, Montana. It's weird how some cities are just randomly worse. I think the Crow Indian Reservation contributes to some of it. It has to be among the worst places in America per capita.
Sometimes I wonder if they really need to be doing it and need the money or not. Like where is that persons BMW stashed.
Instead of complaining about the homeless, I always ask what the solution to it is?
Maybe the top 1% shouldn’t own as much as the bottom 90% in this country, and maybe we should take care of our population of people with mental challenges? Instead we’ve defunded mental hospitals and closed them.
Maybe the top 1% shouldn’t own as much as the bottom 90% in this country, and maybe we should take care of our population of people with mental challenges? Instead we’ve defunded mental hospitals and closed them.
Just my two cents here. I'm in Kansas city and in this area it is not a homeless guy on the corner. It is a team effort. They work shifts. They move around. It is a well orchestrated machine. They make a killing. I don't want to overgeneralize but I see the same people all over the city. I also don't want to say that everyone on a corner asking for help is part of the team, but I do know for a fact that there are territories and shifts and a lot of the people on the corner are just "clocking in". Not totally sure how I feel about it. Does it really affect me? Not really. It does bother me though as I feel it is dishonest. Whatever. I don't really have a dog in the fight but I think word has got out that you can make a lot more money just standing around asking for it than contributing to society.
Plus, it’s too damn cold in Iowa to harbor a huge homeless population. Most of those cities with the most have both a moderate climate and ridiculously expensive housing.
I drive up Euclid from MLK to Delaware everyday for work. Rarely do I not see someone who appears to be disheveled and probably homeless. But I wouldn’t say it has gotten exponentially worse in the last year.
I think what you saw was an extreme outlier.
I think what you saw was an extreme outlier.
