homeless rant
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When I was at University I kind of became a bit more right wing towards homeless people. I studied in Falmouth down in Cornwall and in the late spring when weather finally turns nice it is one of the most beautiful places to be in England.
And every spring there would be an influx of homeless people that would suddenly appear. They would sleep on the piers and I think on the beaches, drinking cheap booze and begging. But non of them seemed to have Cornish accents, they were making the effort to travel to Cornwall to be homeless in nicer surroundings.
Now on the surface that sounds kind of reasonable, everyone wants to have nice surroundings right? But I always thought (and still do) it can't be easy to get that far in to Cornwall with next to no money so they must have made quite an effort to do this every year. Which to me means it's a choice to live like that, they had the drive and the motivation to live in a certain place at a certain time but no motivation to earn a living - instead they want to beg, take money from others. I could just never see why I should work hard, get myself into debt as a student and give them money to drink and hang out on a beach.
- tis the scrumpy me boy. Wood Lane posse huhmax_prophet
- sure am, I was there at the turn of the century. It's getting scarily close to being 10 years since I left.Wolfboy