I took a trip out to my hometown, just outside the city, to see some friends for dinner. This place has slid so badly into poverty it's unreal. There is no work. There is no support system for people with mental illness and they just become drug-addicted homeless people wandering around this town. It's heartbreaking, and then I hear what the people i grew up with say about them and I feel ike punching the entire fucking town in the face forever.
@Mainebot I'm sorry 😕 I know this feeling
@Averly Most of them wound up in my hometown, which was laughably unprepared to deal with even the small number of homeless people it had already. Then the economy tanked, then the population soared, then the drugs rolled in, and it's been a mess since.
The thing that breaks my heart is that the people here hate the homeless and keep voting in this christian town council that couldn't give a fuck about helping anyone.
I'm trying to stay positive but it's really difficult sometimes :/
@Mainebot Ugh that's just horrible on so many levels. Really unfortunate!
I've also, been displaced, by rising living costs and lack of care for the communities that made great... communities.
And now I'm here, meeting all kinds of amazing people (aka the #boobfam) and somehow it's been one of the best "communities" I ever had the pleasure of taking part in, even if I don't have much to offer right now. But regardless, home is where the heart is, or something, and I've got plenty of hearts ♥️
@Averly It's difficult. When Vancouver got the Olympics in 2010, they rounded up every homeless person they could and stuck them on a bus to any of a number of towns outside the city to make it seem like there was nothing wrong with Vancouver.