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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. I was on vacation in SF last summer and didn't encounter anything like this. There were a few homeless guys, I but I don't think they even asked for money. I wouldn't have given out as much money as OP, but I would be alarmed if they followed me.

I guess the DC "cool" quotient isn't sufficient to have a crustie population here.  :D [/quote]

It's just too cold. Unfortunately, the west coast attracts a lot of freaks because you can basically live outside year round . [/quote]

Correct.

In the 1990s, the city of San Francisco debated and, for a time at least, passed ordinances prohibiting sleeping in cars in the areas around Golden Gate park and the Haight.  Around that same time, the city of Eugene struggled with how to deal with people sleeping/camping in out-door parks.

The term "transient" is applied to younger homeless people who, on the west coast, often carry large backpacks made for camping (the same type carried by youth touring on Eurail passes in Europe).   While not all "transients" move from place to place, many do.

I also met young homeless working people in Oregon who worked temporary seasonal jobs; they would sign on to fight forest fires during the summer months, and plant trees in clear-cut pine forests, working either for the timber companies who cleared the forest, or for the forest service.    Both types of work were back-breaking and difficult; some of the workers resorted to meth use on their off days/weeks. [/quote]

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