Homelessness: Discuss!

[findingnemo1]

Originally Posted by Seriak

One question I might ask though is "What prevents people from leaving this city and moving to a less costly city if they are working three jobs to make ends meet. Honest question hoping for a honest response.

I guess in all reality though is there anywhere else that is really less costly? For an example. My parents live in Rimbey and always have..( Little little town north of Sylvan Lake)

To buy a house you are looking at $360.000-400.000. And to rent you are still looking at 1000+. Even outside of Alberta is far from cheap. Thje cheapest place to live WAS Newfoundland but no work. But even then they are starting to rebound. Sooo long story short i don't think that is the solution either.

Don't get me wrong my husband is working in the boom and always has been apart of that.But i guess thats why it is easier for me to look at the downside that if something happens we are in a world of trouble. His whole career is based on the oilpatch( Electrical Engineer) So if the economy crashes then we are in trouble and could very we'll end up homless,car less and trying to figure out what to do now.Everybody has a sad story. And not everyone can pull themselves out of that story and it becomes a novel.But that does not give us the right to look down on them as they are panhandling for a cup of coffee or coming out of a shelter. Because what you may not see is that person coming out of the homless shelter is on there way to work but just can't afford a home.

Everyone living on the street has an issue. Do you really think they like to live out there? When it is -50 outside and they are trying to just survive the night.When they are hungry with nothing to eat. When they want to talk with someone but nobody wants to listen.I think they would much rather be living in a home somewhere but life has dragged them down and they just can't get back up.