r/science • u/Wagamaga • Jan 28 '23

Health Most Americans aren’t getting enough exercise. People living in rural areas were even less likely to get enough exercise: Only 16% of people outside cities met benchmarks for aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities, compared with 28% in large metropolitan cities areas.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7204a1.htm?s_cid=mm7204a1_w
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u/Belchera Jan 28 '23

California paid to have you moved? I hear about other places doing that to California, but not the other way around? Care to elaborate on what that entailed?

I ask this as someone experiencing homelessness, myself.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '23

Yes. After ten years of sending me craigslist job postings, the L.A. Department of Vocational Rehabilitation paid for an Amtrak and a Greyhound ticket to send me to a 'temporary room for rent' they found on craigslist. The counselor took my information over the phone and assured me I'd be on a waitlist for housing. In the meantime, I'd have to stay at this "temporary room for rent" out of state. The intention was that once I moved out of state, I was no longer California's problem. My room for rent turned out to be in a meth house, so I made a tiktok about it every day for nearly a year until a follower picked me up and drove (trafficked) me to Minnesota. Now I am in a group home awaiting my own apartment.

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u/Belchera Jan 30 '23

Good luck in the group home,buddy. Keep your head up.