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1. sulman (sulman@smiley.thespinning.top)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 19:26:29 EST sulman
   Pretty interesting story about homelessness in LA. Quite shocking, really.
   http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-homeless-how-we-got-here-20180201-story.html
   
   These are giant stadiums full of people.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 20:02:35 EST lnxw48a1

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      @sulman The #LATimes, in typical fashion, ignores the outlying cities and counties. Aggressive police harassment in #Los_Angeles (both city and county) at one point caused homeless people to flee to other !SoCal areas, such as #Orange_County and the #Inland_Empire. The now-closed Fontana rest area along #I-10 used to be filled every night with car-dwellers.
      1. sulman (sulman@smiley.thespinning.top)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 20:12:47 EST sulman

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         @lnxw48a1 I saw a little documentary about the trailer park near LAX once; home to airline employees that are effectively homeless. It was fascinating, if a little depressing.
      2. sulman (sulman@smiley.thespinning.top)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 20:18:15 EST sulman

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         @lnxw48a1 From some of the descriptions it appears that the nature of some of these homeless problems is highly varied.
         
         Portland had a lot of lifestyle bums, from what I could see. It sounds like LA has a fair fiew people whom simply cannot afford to live there.
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 20:41:48 EST lnxw48a1

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            @sulman My area was once one of the fastest growing (population-wise) areas in the country, primarily by people escaping from the crazy real estate prices in and near Los Angeles. (The trick is, most people can't afford to live in my area unless they drive the 100 miles back there to work every day.)
            1. sulman (sulman@smiley.thespinning.top)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 21:01:36 EST sulman

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               @lnxw48a1 There was a feature a few weeks back about such a commute - http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-commute-cherry-20171216-story.html
               
               I'm not that surprised. It's an interesting place, like nowhere else I've seen in the US.