Where do the rural homeless near you live? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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This seems to be something people don't always give second thought to. When people talk about the homeless, the first things thought about are images of people on busy city streets in rusty clothes waiting around near allies. In there, the answer is quite static, because it can be I guess. But if that's the case, change the setting and that changes too. In the places where I've lived, people often needed that mapped out. Where are they known in your rural locales?

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[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

When I lived rural adjacent they would either live in barns or in the bushes by the railroad tracks, they'd make like a fort in the brush and drink in there all day, when I worked in ER one of them came in with the bones sticking out of his toes because he had let his diabetic foot wounds progress so far. In my city some of them live on the land next to the highway on ramp in tents, and they walk quite a ways away to the nearest intersection to panhandle.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

TIL foot degradation is a survivable thing. I hope he's alright.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Hope so. The smell was unreal

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