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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:48:30 AM EDT
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Well, at least one of those homeless guys was working on his vocabulary 
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:50:02 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:50:10 AM EDT
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That's not downtown LA. That's Skid Row. The real downtown LA is about 1/2 mile northwest. Skid Row has been a slum since before WWII. It's where the vagrant drunks lived. They lived in the flop houses and drank in the dive bars or in the street. In the 1960's, it became home to drug addicts as well. San Francisco has their own version called the Tenderloin. It followed the same pattern of drunks in flop houses to drug addicts and mentally ill homeless. These people shit in the street because they can't even afford to live in the flop houses. And many of the old flop houses are gone -- developed into apartments and condos and lofts so the millennials with money can move in and brag to their friends how "edgy" it is to live there. Skid Row no better represents Los Angeles than the Tenderloin represents San Francisco. All this clickbait BS is getting very tiresome.  |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:51:22 AM EDT
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Well, at least one of those homeless guys was working on his vocabulary
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:51:37 AM EDT
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Dem plan for all of the US. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:51:58 AM EDT
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This is exactly what they want. The predictable and observable end state of their ideology. Why are they complaining?
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:52:25 AM EDT
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I visit family in L.A. There are rows and rows of tents set up all over on side walks. The tent dwellers are the new "middle class" in LA. The truly poor live in cardboard boxes and other trash piles, usually under bridges and such. 
One of the big problems is that jobs are being created six times faster than homes.
Apparently these jobs are attractive enough to have people move here to work them which puts pressure on housing. Already the nation's most popular state and growing, many cities are pushing back against all the people moving there with slow-growth initiatives. People are moving here to work and they require roads to drive on, schools for their kids, electrical power, water, fields to pitch their tents and even some buy homes. That puts pressure on the socialist markets here where the party controls the production capacity of industry. The price of homes continues to rise and are about 5% from the record highs we saw 10 years ago where my home was going up $10,000 and $20,000 a month. It's gotta' burst. Someone has to do something to control the foolish people creating so many jobs here. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:52:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:52:42 AM EDT
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That's not downtown LA. That's Skid Row. The real downtown LA is about 1/2 mile northwest. 
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:53:02 AM EDT
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That's not downtown LA. That's Skid Row. The real downtown LA is about 1/2 mile northwest. Skid Row has been a slum since before WWII. It's where the vagrant drunks lived. They lived in the flop houses and drank in the dive bars or in the street. In the 1960's, it became home to drug addicts as well. San Francisco has their own version called the Tenderloin. It followed the same pattern of drunks in flop houses to drug addicts and mentally ill homeless. These people shit in the street because they can't even afford to live in the flop houses. And many of the old flop houses are gone -- developed into apartments and condos and lofts so the millennials with money can move in and brag to their friends how "edgy" it is to live there. Skid Row no better represents Los Angeles than the Tenderloin represents San Francisco. All this clickbait BS is getting very tiresome. I was in "the real DTLA" (lol) not six weeks ago. Guess what? There were tents under every bridge, tons of homeless just wandering around. eta: make sure you let Google maps know 6th & San Pedro is not Downtown LA.  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:55:16 AM EDT
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Can hardly go back to the toy district
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:55:42 AM EDT
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That's not downtown LA. That's Skid Row. The real downtown LA is about 1/2 mile northwest. Skid Row has been a slum since before WWII. It's where the vagrant drunks lived. They lived in the flop houses and drank in the dive bars or in the street. In the 1960's, it became home to drug addicts as well. San Francisco has their own version called the Tenderloin. It followed the same pattern of drunks in flop houses to drug addicts and mentally ill homeless. These people shit in the street because they can't even afford to live in the flop houses. And many of the old flop houses are gone -- developed into apartments and condos and lofts so the millennials with money can move in and brag to their friends how "edgy" it is to live there. Skid Row no better represents Los Angeles than the Tenderloin represents San Francisco. All this clickbait BS is getting very tiresome. I feel sorry for you good people - it absolutely must feel like living behind enemy lines. Like being caught in East Berlin before the wall came down. That said, you can't be surprised when those of us in more "right" controlled areas say, "Just quarantine the entire west coast and let the survivors sort things out." |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:56:07 AM EDT
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This is true. Not trying to downplay the problem or it's creeping tendencies. I stay at the Westin Bonaventure at least once a month and there's very few homeless people sleeping on the streets in the downtown district. But you see plenty of tents going in and out of that area. They're underneath overpasses and piled up next to on-ramps and off-ramps. It's a big problem but it hasn't actually taken over the downtown area yet. Give it a couple more years... Every single big city I’ve ever been to is a shithole . Every. Single . One . Are there uber rich people living in their own little fiefdoms ? Sure . That doesn’t negate shithole status . Modern America , where as long as the uber rich and the left who runs said big cities get to live in over the top opulence , the rest of the people can FOAD . |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:56:08 AM EDT
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Dem plan for all of the US. Democrats have been out to destroy this country some they lost the Civil War! |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:57:52 AM EDT
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They're all aspiring actors, between jobs.
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:58:38 AM EDT
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I wonder what the demographics of downtown LA are? 
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:59:00 AM EDT
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Lol, that is what a libtard utopia looks like
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:59:21 AM EDT
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My daughter asked me yesterday if we could go to LA for a weekend in July. I asked her to pick another city. Took her to San Francisco 2 years ago, spent 4 days in Selma. California is incredible but I don’t want to take her out there right now. Too many, uh, variables.
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Posted: 6/2/2019 9:59:35 AM EDT
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Throw a fence up around LA or California while we are at it and implement a travel ban to all incoming and outgoing travel. Let the dems run it into the ground some more. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:02:57 AM EDT
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Is Somalia that bad?
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:03:51 AM EDT
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You are all wrong. Obviously we've just had the wrong people in charge. Next time - for sure - it'll be done right.....
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:04:36 AM EDT
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That's not downtown LA. That's Skid Row. The real downtown LA is about 1/2 mile northwest. Skid Row has been a slum since before WWII. It's where the vagrant drunks lived. They lived in the flop houses and drank in the dive bars or in the street. In the 1960's, it became home to drug addicts as well. San Francisco has their own version called the Tenderloin. It followed the same pattern of drunks in flop houses to drug addicts and mentally ill homeless. These people shit in the street because they can't even afford to live in the flop houses. And many of the old flop houses are gone -- developed into apartments and condos and lofts so the millennials with money can move in and brag to their friends how "edgy" it is to live there. Skid Row no better represents Los Angeles than the Tenderloin represents San Francisco. All this clickbait BS is getting very tiresome. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:06:53 AM EDT
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:07:13 AM EDT
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How many of those will wind up being bussed to red states to vote in the next election?
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:07:24 AM EDT
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My daughter asked me yesterday if we could go to LA for a weekend in July. I asked her to pick another city. Took her to San Francisco 2 years ago, spent 4 days in Selma. California is incredible but I don’t want to take her out there right now. Too many, uh, variables. WTF is wrong with those assholes in charge for god's sake!!?? 
I am an old guy and let me tell you you DO NOT want typhoid fever. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:08:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:@Paul , how do these people eat? Are they dumpster diving behind restaurants, EBT ... or what? The scope of the problem there is beyond my comprehension. Plague, Typhus ... what's old is new again From watching them they do OK. They shoplift small items like clothing and toiletries as if they get caught it's a ticket. They dumpster dive restaurants or use their panhandling money from an hour's effort on the off-ramps to eat all day at a buffet. The weather is good so it's not too hot/not too cold most of the year. It rarely rains so their tents do fine in the vacant areas they camp in. They get up into the foothills around the city and sleep up in the rocks and canyons up there. On garbage days they scour the trash containers looking for aluminum cans. The recycling centers always have some of the homeless looking people turning in their hauls. Lots of church groups help. Sadly there's lots of homeless veterans due to California's largest military pretense. There are veteran only shelters right by where I work and those people are doing well because they mandate a drug free life. Druggies aren't completely stupid. They know which cities are tough and which aren't. They know where they can live in the weather year-round and where they can't. They know where there are handouts and where there aren't. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:12:01 AM EDT
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https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-skid-row-trash-homeless-merchants-20190525-story.html
The trash problem is not confined to any one street, but this particular location on the 800 block of Ceres Avenue is surrounded by food distribution companies that sell to shoppers, vendors, stores and restaurants. I counted seven within a block, so you have to wonder — given the colonies of football-size rats — about the potential contamination of the food supply chain and the spread of disease. “I have had many conversations with the city about that,” said Estela Lopez, who runs the Downtown Industrial Business Improvement District, or BID. “When the typhus outbreak was first reported in October, that was one place we knew rats were, for sure.” ------------------------------- When KNBC-TV Channel 4’s Joel Grover and Amy Corral reported on the Ceres Avenue dump last October, Mayor Eric Garcetti jumped in and the city cleaned it up right away. The same news crew just went back and reported that the heap was as big as before, and it got cleaned up again. Stern said that since October, Ceres Avenue litter has been cleared nine times. The BID staff disputes that, but whatever the correct number of cleanups, the dumpers are winning. ------------------------------- Joey Joseph, who owns a seafood distribution center on Gladys Avenue near 4th, called to report urine and feces on the sidewalk where vendors pull in to load their vehicles. Joseph told me he also calls police and City Hall, along with the BID, so I asked how often. “It’s every day,” Joseph said as two of Ramirez’s crew picked up the waste, disinfected the area and then power-washed. “Usually several times a day.” |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:12:38 AM EDT
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@Paul , how do these people eat? Are they dumpster diving behind restaurants, EBT ... or what? The scope of the problem there is beyond my comprehension. Plague, Typhus ... what's old is new again |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:12:58 AM EDT
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Next time I see my doctor I am telling him to give me a typhoid vaccination booster.
At 65 years old that shit will fucking kill me most likely if I get it. 
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:13:11 AM EDT
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Lets turn LA into a prison city  |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:13:13 AM EDT
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Skid Row no better represents Los Angeles than the Tenderloin represents San Francisco. All this clickbait BS is getting very tiresome. Skid Row is California with nearly 40-million people living this way. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego are the only major cities in America where there are such problems and that's because of the liberals. Go downtown Baltimore, Atlanta, Memphis, Saint Louis, Gary, Houston, Portland, Seattle, Denver, or Birmingham and you'll see what a bigger city can look like when run well. 
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:13:48 AM EDT
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Sometimes you have to cauterize a wound.
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:14:23 AM EDT
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It was interesting to see so much stuff locked behind glass in a Walmart in with a police officer at the door. And that was in Rancho Cucamonga.
The posters on this site from California are nice and all, but you all need to stop acting like this is normal. Blocks of tents, tons of trash, laundry detergent and makeup behind locks is not normal for 90% of the country. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:15:17 AM EDT
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I wonder what the demographics of downtown LA are? The only thing that stands out is the easy living. The weather in Socal is pretty much perfect homeless weather. East coast people don't know what to think when they see how shitty the areas are where you hear about rich people living. You could live in a 100 million dollar house and see human feces out front on the way to school everyday. Same as any other California city. It's another country. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:15:34 AM EDT
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That's not downtown LA. That's Skid Row. The real downtown LA is about 1/2 mile northwest. Skid Row no better represents Los Angeles than the Tenderloin represents San Francisco. All this clickbait BS is getting very tiresome. Tent cities and piles of trash are all over LA and Orange county. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:17:49 AM EDT
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maybe a pathogen is natures answer
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:18:36 AM EDT
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Is it wrong that I'm hoping for a plague to ravage Los Angeles?
I mean humanity is dumb and needs a pretty big wakeup call. A terrible plague originating in the homeless camps and sweeping through the city might be enough of a cautionary tale to avert this happening nationwide. 
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:18:45 AM EDT
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Last year my group went to downtown LA, right past LAPD and up the observation deck. We then went to a Mexican restaurant a couple blocks away. There were bums and heroin addicts everywhere, as well as tents and piles of trash. The smell of piss and shit made the area smell exactly like India. Tent cities and piles of trash are all over LA and Orange county. I mean WTF California!!?? 
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:18:47 AM EDT
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Sometimes you have to cauterize a wound. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:20:31 AM EDT
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Is it wrong that I'm hoping for a plague to ravage Los Angeles? I mean humanity is dumb and needs a pretty big wakeup call. A terrible plague originating in the homeless camps and sweeping through the city might be enough of a cautionary tale to avert this happening nationwide. I say we put California under quarantine...…..this is fucking CRAZY!!!
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:21:46 AM EDT
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That's not downtown LA. That's Skid Row. The real downtown LA is about 1/2 mile northwest. Skid Row has been a slum since before WWII. It's where the vagrant drunks lived. They lived in the flop houses and drank in the dive bars or in the street. In the 1960's, it became home to drug addicts as well. San Francisco has their own version called the Tenderloin. It followed the same pattern of drunks in flop houses to drug addicts and mentally ill homeless. These people shit in the street because they can't even afford to live in the flop houses. And many of the old flop houses are gone -- developed into apartments and condos and lofts so the millennials with money can move in and brag to their friends how "edgy" it is to live there. Skid Row no better represents Los Angeles than the Tenderloin represents San Francisco. All this clickbait BS is getting very tiresome. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:23:21 AM EDT
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Is there any constitutional way we can MAKE California secede?
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:23:37 AM EDT
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Well, at least one of those homeless guys was working on his vocabulary
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:23:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: In California white Americas are a minority. People need to wake the fuck up. Shit has gotten very strange in certain parts of the country. Avoid California for now. Even more so with out of state plates. Dear lord don't show up looking like Kansas. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:24:06 AM EDT
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Nonsense. Let them know the truth. Skid Row is California with nearly 40-million people living this way. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego are the only major cities in America where there are such problems and that's because of the liberals. Go downtown Baltimore, Atlanta, Memphis, Saint Louis, Gary, Houston, Portland, Seattle, Denver, or Birmingham and you'll see what a bigger city can look like when run well. Denver is beginning to have issues too but the weather will likely keep the numbers low(er). While rain is sometimes inconvenient, cold kills. |
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:24:08 AM EDT
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ZFG, they brought it upon themselves, let them reap their reward. My field of fucks is barren. This is the shit they voted for & wanted to allow to happen. I don't wish it to happen but I wouldn't give a rat's ass if thousands of people got deathly ill from some sort of illness plague. About the only ones I don't wish it upon are the cops & medics that have to deal with that shit. Those moronic libtards are rearranging the chairs on the decks of the Titanic, IMO. Illegal sanctuary cities are sure to help with this too, further crowding so-called affordable housing. I would love to hear Trump say if CA voted for him, he would end the homeless problem there. Watch the Dim candidates' heads explode........ 
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Posted: 6/2/2019 10:25:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not so in Seattle, they have a HUGE homeless population and it appears to be growing because they’re funding it. I was there in December with my wife. Never had a room key required to get into the breakfast bar at a hotel, until Seattle. I’ve never seen so many homeless. It was sobering. Denver is beginning to have issues too but the weather will likely keep the numbers low(er). While rain is sometimes inconvenient, cold kills.
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