Duanob, I saw the camps last weekend.
It's packed tighter than the crowd at dunefest.
It's a startling phenomena. The unbelieveable amount of homeless people. Who have filled up the little open space left in Seattle. I've only been away from the city for 4 years and this happened.
4 years to see a homeless population boom into an absolute crisis.
That's really startling.
I have questions about it myself.
I also have a massive amount of empathy.
Had I not been blessed with a lover and a family those years when I was struggling in Seattle. Had I not been able to come home to roost at the family farm. There is no doubt in my mind; I'd be camped out among them.
A mostly sober and sometimes clever guy who just couldn't earn the $36,000 annual minimum to "live" there. Hell, I work six nights a week and I still don't earn $36k. If I worked 6 days AND nights a week. Not only would I be in constant agonizing pain, I would still be earning below 36k AND poverty level income. Literally, I alone with my abilities, would have to pitch a tent if I was to remain in Seattle.
So Duanob, go count your blessings. Be grateful you have the priviledge to see a homeless camp as a "nuisiance" and not the only home you have left to go to.