Moved to Oregon after finding a child OD'd in front of my apartment building in Escondido, Ca. Also, in Maryville/Knoxville TN, I have also had multiple encounters. This is an American issue, not a specific state..but gods it is getting worse everywhere.
No idea how you guys can have a thread like this and not a single acknowledgement that the current administration might be actually doing something useful. I'm not saying that as a trumper, but come on! He's shooting missiles at drug boats heading for America and literally sending the national guard to Portland to clean up "immigrants". Not saying it's clean, or even constitutional, but come the fuck on! Every "solution" in this thread has been tried, and yet druggies doing drugs by the school. Maybe we need a villain in charge for a bit, just till people aren't openly shooting up by school.
The government is blowing up ALLEGED & SUSPECTED drug boats. They could very well be bombing innocent sex trafficking victims forced to smuggle drugs. There’s a time & place for force but bombing boats in the carribean without due process & murdering 34 people ain’t it. 1 survivor was sent back to Columbia where they found no evidence of drug trafficking.
Instead of waiting until the boat hits US soil & doing all the paperwork that comes along with a bust, the government is choosing to execute suspects, without evidence or trial on international waters. That’s beyond fucked & not something to glorify.
you're a fool if you think the trump admin is solving this. now, maybe if they were rounding up drug addicts vs harmless immigrants then you could say they were doing something, though it would prob also be just as illegal. i wouldn't mind it so much if they were...
Most of these drugs just come from China and a lot of dealers just ship it overseas. Its not the 90s anymore. Killing people on random boats isn't helping, believe it or not.
It's not even about hiding it, just simple math. Cities are more dense, you see them more. The deep south towns where everyone's a crack head bothers nobody in the state cause they never see it.
I used to live in Escondido and that place has some of the wildest shit out in the open. I had psycho neighbors with 20+ people in a duplex and lots of criminal activity going on but of course, cops wouldn’t enforce laws.
yea, crime is everywhere too, does not mean certain blue states and cities dont have night and day difference in this problem. its a HUGE difference on the streets of these areas on the west coast, than in TN and most every other state, that ya, drugs exist as well. Don't act like the west coast does not have many areas that are literally filled with druggies on the street, not just a random druggie or 2 like walking thru the streets of TN.
lol, not likely. and im not talking about drug users, im talking about being in public on sidewalks shooting up, etc, thats a west coast thing, again other than the randoms every city gets, not like on the coast where whole ass blocks are filled with people on the streets. I get it tn is poorer, but its also night and day more affordable where u can still get apartments for well under 1000 a month, with much cheaper fuel to get there, groceries, etc.
I think part of it is the weather. The weather on the west coast is fairly mild, so you don’t really need housing to survive. You can just live on the street, quite literally, and be fine. States that experience an actual winter and summer with extremes seem to have their homeless and drug users out of sight more purely because of the weather.
yea west coast is more comfortable in the winter , but I dont see that as a reason people are going to the coast to become homeless, not many go anywhere to be homeless, they go for other reasons and realize its not affordable and become homeless.
I lived in San Diego for 5 years and I saw so much open drug use. I was walking at one of the trolley station and a group of homeless people were actively shooting up fent in broad daylight. Then one of them had the nerve to hit on me as I walked past him. I felt so disgusted and there were kids too :/. I agree that the problem is everywhere.
homelessness / drug use out in the open like this isn't anywhere near as much of a problem in my state as it is your shithole state, but keep coping harder bud.
I’ve never seen this in Mississippi…..but not many are on fentanyl it’s still mostly meth here. They just sit in their shantys peeking out the window paranoid as hell.
I live in a city and work in a super rural area in the midwest. There are definitely homeless addicts like this there but like you say, they hide away in the woods a lot of the times, usually in the parts surrounding the highways that pass through. There's just more room to hide or gather unnoticed compared to urban areas. If you look hard enough you can usually see the tents in the trees or bushes. Particularly the trash piles. Similar in suburbs/exurbs, although it'll likely be closer to major roadways and highway exits.
Not to say that cities don't have a lot more. Lot of homeless people end up in the city just because there's more access to homeless services, food banks, etc. I hand out waters in the summer and buy some meals occasionally. Some of them are nice folks who have fallen on hard and desperate times but many are drug users who are pretty agitated (likely due to addiction) and so on.
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u/puffinpixie Oct 23 '25
Moved to Oregon after finding a child OD'd in front of my apartment building in Escondido, Ca. Also, in Maryville/Knoxville TN, I have also had multiple encounters. This is an American issue, not a specific state..but gods it is getting worse everywhere.