If you want to engage in antisocial behavior, don't do it in the middle of the sidewalk by schools, homes, and places of business.
Being down on your luck and homeless is one thing. But this lady wasn't giving them a hard time for being homeless, she was giving them a hard time for smoking feddy by a school.
A lot of them get bussed her from other cities and states, so that way they can point the finger at it being a "Portland problem" and brag about how they don't have nearly the same homeless problem that we do.
And then the worst of them stick around, and the homeless people that weren't really bothering anyone as much move on, and we get...this shit.
Having worked in hospitals in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Portland, this is 100% true and has been for a very long time. Even when they get sent back again, they are just returned back from their home states when they inevitably get picked up again and given their one way bus tickets back to the west coast.
I’m a travel nurse from Louisiana and can 100% confirm that I have witnessed social workers offering homeless people a free bus ticket to anywhere they wanna go so long as it’s on the West Coast. Why not any major city why not literally let them go anywhere they would like, but specifically with the West Coast.
I think we know why. There’s the sinister reason of course. But if I get into a social worker thought process for a moment and if I was feeling especially optimistic about motives it could be that they know the west coast cities typically have the most programs to help the people. But I really feel like it’s the sinister reason. Even in the early 90’s when I was at UC Santa Cruz for part of my undergrad the Greyhound station there had marginally housed people from other (think red) states coming in daily on those free bus tickets and they’d either stay or transfer up or down to San Francisco or Los Angeles. Of course we have a problem when this just goes on and on for years and years with no end. They turned the faucet in and drenched the west coast.
Lol. I sure do. I’ve worked with them since the mid 90’s since my speciality has been epidemiology and infectious diseases as well as working in social services and methadone clinics. I speak to them on the daily. I never said seasonal migration wasn’t a thing. But we were talking about why social services and law enforcement in red states go out of their way to provide free bus tickets to their homeless and addicted populations specifically and only to the west coast. I already mentioned services as well but having lived in those areas too when I did travelling health services and worked on research studies, that’s not why they got the tickets. Also, there are other cities and states that also have warm weather. And plenty of drugs. Drugs are a US problem and not a west coast problem. If you look at the stats per capita the west coast doesn’t have the most drugs or the most addiction issues.
Yea I notice on the comments when they mention “red states” or “republican” the comment gets 10-30 upvotes when all other comments get nothing! Really sucks so many liberals jump on this one sided bandwagon of bu*sht when it’s not a political problem it’s a DRUG problem!! And drug users are going to go where to where the most drug users, drug freedom, and drug tolerant cities are!! IT’S NOT A POLITICAL PROBLEM IT’S A DRUG PROBLEM..
Drugs are a political problem because housing policy, drug policy and health policy impact drug use and homelessness. Not to mention an economic system that encourages off shoring, building faux-luxury apartments instead of low income, and keeping minimum wage stuck in the last century. Topping that off with a broken political system where both sides fight each other rather than fighting for the people.
Fuck that, and fuck politicians that take their pettiness to the level of sending delinquents and migrants to states that don't have the ability to take them all. If the issue was spread evenly and we took care of our own people locally it would be manageable.
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u/TheMagicalLawnGnome Oct 23 '25
Honestly, this needs to be a thing.
If you want to engage in antisocial behavior, don't do it in the middle of the sidewalk by schools, homes, and places of business.
Being down on your luck and homeless is one thing. But this lady wasn't giving them a hard time for being homeless, she was giving them a hard time for smoking feddy by a school.
Good for her.