Your city

[warmonger1981]

Please share something cool about where you live. It can be anything.

[BabySasuke]

axe throwing

[TeeGee]

AFL Grand Final

[saxitoxin]

My city has a major homeless epidemic that is the result of poor policy decisions by local government.

In my alley, for awhile, some homeless people used to dumpster dive. I don't fundamentally mind that except that it was annoying because they didn't do it neatly but would just scatter the garbage about and leave it there.

Okay, well that was slightly perturbing, but whatever.

However, recently, a new class of homeless people have moved into the alley. On the hierarchy of homeless people they are several rungs below the previous bohemian homeless and have essentially chased those ones out. The previous homeless were relatively well-kept, as clean as could be expected, and were of sound mind. The new homeless are simply operating on a different plane of existence. Their physical bodies occupy our dimension but their minds are not here. They are rail thin, caked from head to foot in dirt, and - literally - wear rags. They sleep in the alley for 12 hours a day. When they're awake they usually don't get up but simply remain in a prone position smoking meth. (Since they don't really move much I have no idea how they even get the meth to smoke.)

This is a problem as my garage entry faces the alley. I've taken to parking on the street if I come back after dark because I'm afraid I'll run over someone if I try to drive down the alley. Occasionally, the police will come through on a clearance operation but that only lasts a day or two before they return. The most the police can do is lecture them to leave but they can't really arrest them for vagrancy because there's not the political will to do it, and these people are probably too physically weak to be taken to jail anyway and too filthy to go to the county hospital. I've walked by when a police officer is telling one of them to leave before and they can't even vocalize replies they're so out of their minds, though they do seem to understand basic spoken commands if accompanied by gestures.

I have a friend who is a feckless bureaucrat in the city's social services department and tells me that homeless shelters won't take this class of people as they are below even their standards.

[jonesthecurl]

We have a steampunk bar.

[Keefie]

The most amazing multi-cultural & tolerant city in the world.

[saxitoxin]

The most amazing multi-cultural & tolerant city in the world.

Yeah, I live in one of those, too. See above.

[tkr4lf]

there's a big arch here

[saxitoxin]

there's a big arch here

[HitRed]

We fight in our churches

[tkr4lf]

there's a big arch here

Well la-tee-da, mr. fancy pants.

[KoolBak]

We have a steampunk bar.

Name / pix? I'd like to see that.

My little town is rated very high for liveability....very low crime, higher than average average income and very pleasant...and we have the Willamette River running through so lots of water play / parks.

Luckily I bought here 30 years ago when I had a real job and didnt sew for a living

[notyou2]

We hire seamstresses.

[Quirk]

R.E.M., The B-52's and

Go Dogs!

[KoolBak]

We hire seamstresses.

That would be a chick that works on dresses.

I'm an industrial sewer.

[notyou2]

We hire seamstresses.

That would be a chick that works on dresses.

I'm an industrial sewer.

We don't judge in Canada, well, most don't.

[DoomYoshi]

Slaves escaping on the Underground railroad used to swim across the river and land in my town. One witness reported that the entire family when they arrived were weeping and they were kissing the ground and singing Hallelujah and thanking God for reaching the promised land.

Now a bunch of East European mobsters are fighting over who gets to control the sex slaves that are illegally shipped into our country. We live in a slaver's haven.

[betiko]

My city has a major homeless epidemic that is the result of poor policy decisions by local government.

In my alley, for awhile, some homeless people used to dumpster dive. I don't fundamentally mind that except that it was annoying because they didn't do it neatly but would just scatter the garbage about and leave it there.

Okay, well that was slightly perturbing, but whatever.

However, recently, a new class of homeless people have moved into the alley. On the hierarchy of homeless people they are several rungs below the previous bohemian homeless and have essentially chased those ones out. The previous homeless were relatively well-kept, as clean as could be expected, and were of sound mind. The new homeless are simply operating on a different plane of existence. Their physical bodies occupy our dimension but their minds are not here. They are rail thin, caked from head to foot in dirt, and - literally - wear rags. They sleep in the alley for 12 hours a day. When they're awake they usually don't get up but simply remain in a prone position smoking meth. (Since they don't really move much I have no idea how they even get the meth to smoke.)

This is a problem as my garage entry faces the alley. I've taken to parking on the street if I come back after dark because I'm afraid I'll run over someone if I try to drive down the alley. Occasionally, the police will come through on a clearance operation but that only lasts a day or two before they return. The most the police can do is lecture them to leave but they can't really arrest them for vagrancy because there's not the political will to do it, and these people are probably too physically weak to be taken to jail anyway and too filthy to go to the county hospital. I've walked by when a police officer is telling one of them to leave before and they can't even vocalize replies they're so out of their minds, though they do seem to understand basic spoken commands if accompanied by gestures.

I have a friend who is a feckless bureaucrat in the city's social services department and tells me that homeless shelters won't take this class of people as they are below even their standards.

Start cooking your own meth in your garage dude. Hand it over for free. If you aren't too good at it, at least you would have solved your problem.

[warmonger1981]

I actually used to know a guy who was a meth cooker. He was in the basement in the corner and his lab blew up. His body was burned about 80%. I was a real dick and used to call him " KFC". I think he learned his lesson cuz he doesn't do drugs anymore.

[xroads]

I grew up about 45 miles from the quad cities map, and now luve about 2 hours from it.

[karel]

live in a city with a bunch of stupid ass libtards,sigh

[riskllama]

live in a city with a bunch of stupid ass libtards,sigh

i'm sure they're quite fond of you, as well. what with all the empty beercans and derelict household appliances/automobile parts you have no doubt strewn about your yard. how could they not be???

[HitRed]

live in a city with a bunch of stupid ass libtards,sigh

i'm sure they're quite fond of you, as well. what with all the empty beercans and derelict household appliances/automobile parts you have no doubt strewn about your yard. how could they not be???

I took a train from San Antonio Texas to Chicago Illinois. Mile after mile of people's backyards line the tracks. There is no shortage of recyclable junk in America.

[notyou2]

live in a city with a bunch of stupid ass libtards,sigh

Move to Saudi Arabia where they share your conservatism.

[notyou2]

live in a city with a bunch of stupid ass libtards,sigh

i'm sure they're quite fond of you, as well. what with all the empty beercans and derelict household appliances/automobile parts you have no doubt strewn about your yard. how could they not be???

I took a train from San Antonio Texas to Chicago Illinois. Mile after mile of people's backyards line the tracks. There is no shortage of recyclable junk in America.

The people are hoarding it for the impending war effort.