Have you ever been Homeless?, page 1

What prompted this question is this article I recently read.

www.reuters.com...

Technically, I have never actually been homeless. However in my 30's, after a painful and financially devastating divorce, left with only my clothes, a dog and a Ford pickup I lived on the road as a gypsy, traveling the American southwest, working at any job I could find and living in my camper. In retrospect it was a very matureing experience but I was so devistated by my divorce that all I could do was whine and feel sorry for myself. And drink.

I would like to hear of others experiences, living on the road, jobless, at wit end, and how did you deal with your situation, emotionally, physically, spiritually.


[edit on 27-7-2009 by whaaa]

reply to post by whaaa

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No, I've never been homeless, but here in New orleans we used to have homeless communities infront of City Hall. They were in the thousands especially after Katrina, many took root at City Hall and they were forced to move to under a bridge because City Hall said it was bringing a bad look to the city (The 500+ outside city hall). Go figure, the city says they are broke yet they are buying all these political vehicles to replace the year old ones and of course they are moving city hall into the city, which is costing millions of dollars, that is apparently coming from the cities money and our taxes of course.

And lets not forget our crooked polticians. They are in the middle of a huge scandal right now with the Majors Office. if they find evidence on him, he may go to jail for a long time. Along with Bill Jefferson and a few others. Crooked politics is hurting New orleans bad, but I am sure it is worse in other areas. We have a lot of homeless people, but I think Florida has more then us and I know other cities have much more then us.

The article says hundreds, but it was much more then that, when the attention got louder that the homeless were setting up shop. Eventually, the other homeless people took shop up their as well.

Homeless in New orleans seek help from city hall

New York Times reports: Homeless In New Orleans

Needless to say you can thousands of articles on N.O and Homeless people. Its sad really.

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[edit on Jul 27th 2009 by TheMythLives]

reply to post by whaaa

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I was a couple of times, except we stayed with friends each and every time so I don't really know if that qualifies. Once we were forced out of the house we were buying from Hubby's mother cause she died and the will was nonexistant or probably ripped up by his awful sister whom forced us out of the house, One was we were unable to pay our rent and got out before they could evict so our credit wasn't ruined, then the last time the county took over the rental we were in so they could put in a jughandle and we were forced out by the county. Three different reasons and we never saved up any money, so we had to go to friends' places.

reply to post by antar

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What a touching story...you are truly a hero for not stealing that turkey!

Never been homeless, but with LOTS of siblings and a dad supporting everyone financially, it sure felt like it!

reply to post by getreadyalready

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I hope you don't mind, but i disagree with you, thats like saying that if your a good person you are not going to get murdered. Things happen and things happen and things happen. What about the Great Depression? I assume they alienated everyone in their life as well? I do not think its everyyone fault that their homeless (sure their are some that drove themselves their, but that applies to everything in life), because S... really does happen. Its unfortunate, but it happens.

[edit on Jul 27th 2009 by TheMythLives]

reply to post by getreadyalready

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Just wait until the next phase hits you directly. We who are more tollerant of the real world will fare much easier. Not that we will not suffer too, but we will be past denial and shock.

Being on a survival level takes alot more than you could ever imagine.

I could barely read your full post as it is nonsense imho.

reply to post by antar

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Whoa A, your life reads like a movie script.....

Any other experiences you would like to share?

Originally posted by TheMythLives
reply to post by getreadyalready

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I hope you don't mind, but i disagree with you, thats like saying that if your a good person you are not going to get murdered. Things happen and things happen and things happen. What about the Great Depression? I assume they alienated everyone in their life as well? I do not think its anyone fault that their homeless, because S... really does happen. Its unfortunate, but it happens.

The Great Depression (or the current one before long) is a little different story. When everybody you know is in the same boat, there are not a lot of options!!

Otherwise, you are describing a series of catastrophic events, similar to a plane crash! Sure, it can happen where an entire series of unfortunate and unforeseen problems deplete your entire reserve of money, resources, and friends. But this is the exception, not the rule! What is the statistic for plane crashes? One in a 6 million or so?
www.planecrashinfo.com...

So, if the same unfortunate statistic applies to homelessness, the US should have about 58 homeless people in the U.S. (1 in 6 million)

I can live with that number!!

Of course it is unrealistic, but so is the 3.5 million we are estimated to have!
www.washprofile.org...

reply to post by whaaa

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ok one word of caution about eating oranges... Once having not eaten in again a couple of weeks, I went to an orange tree and picked the biggest juiciest sweet oranges I could find, eating 13 of them I was in heaven, for about 10 minutes.

I found myself down on my hands and knees clutching my stomach in sheer and total pain. It tore the lining of my stomach UP.

To this day I cant take aspirin or eat red meat of any kind. I get heart attack symptoms and start to sweat and the stomach hurts soo bad I get sick to the point of vomiting.

reply to post by getreadyalready

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What are you talking about... The worst thing is watching your money dwindle away and knowing your going to be homeless and their is nothing you can do.

But I am not sure what you were talking about? For instance what about this: People who paid for medical supplies and hospital stays to survive are now homeless 9Especially for cancer therapy and tumors). How is that their fault? Just curious, because according to your logic, they should either die or get a job when they can barely fuction...



I'm not trying to be mean, but your understanding makes no sense.

[edit on Jul 27th 2009 by TheMythLives]

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