I recently kayaked a stretch of the Tennessee River, between state parks, and within an hour of paddling I passed both a homeless riverside "tent city" [technically "public camping" on TWRA/state land] and then the most-expensive house for sale in our entire metro area (just around the same peninsula).
These inholdings, both impoverished and not, were each having their respective parties (cheap beer in common) along the lakeside. Titties abounded - "howdy neighbor" - the no-betterness of being "commoners, enjoying this day upon the lake."
Interestingly, the poverty beach camp seemed to be having more fun; but obviously the multi-million $$$ homeowners are in much easier/better situations (likely).
I've lived on and off a semi-rural "squatter" community by ideological choice for around a year [0] (that experience helped _a lot_ later when i was homeless by lack of resources, while i finished my engineering degree), i've probably never had as much fun as i did at the time. Learned juggling, guitar and basic human interactions i had trouble with at the time. We shared alcohol, games and stories with everyone who went to say hello, even cops at the time (it was after César but before 2016)
Did you grow up in Loire-Atlantique..? or how did you discover this community?
I probably couldn't "hack it" out in the wilderness of NAD, but always regret having not joined a hippie co-op (living situation) while in college [I once dated a gal living in one... it was so neat and inexpensive, but she was a sloot].
Close by. I was in Nantes university (UFR) in 2009, failed to get my math bachelor degree in 2012 and took a gap year (i absolutely couldn't stand uni life anymore) where i lived between NDDL and youth camps as a counselor (also was part of "Les petits débrouillards" to teach kids science through experiments, but my expenses were barely covered to be totally honest, so i don't know if i could count this as a job).
In between San Francisco and San Jose, almost every underpass that has any underbrush potentially has a homeless settlement. There was an effort to clear some of these out but I saw several on my last bicycle ride in the area. Pre pandemic there were some on ramps that had tents just off the sidewalk for several hundred yards - it's our modern dystopia. There's a railway right of way near Facebook HQ in Menlo Park that had at least four cars parked way off the road in the brush with tents, and a few miles from Apple HQ there are lots of homeless people living on water/railway right of ways and in underpasses.
These inholdings, both impoverished and not, were each having their respective parties (cheap beer in common) along the lakeside. Titties abounded - "howdy neighbor" - the no-betterness of being "commoners, enjoying this day upon the lake."
Interestingly, the poverty beach camp seemed to be having more fun; but obviously the multi-million $$$ homeowners are in much easier/better situations (likely).