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		khuey 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeles... > No. They are 98% drug addicts or mentally ill people. That might be true, but there are plenty of drug addicts and mentally ill people in West Virginia (#1 in per capita overdose deaths and well above CA/NY/etc in suicides) and yet West Virginia has a pretty low rate of homelessness (roughly 1/5th CA's and 1/8th NY's) so that's clearly not the explanation.

hunterpayne 4 months ago [–]

Counterpoint, WV and NY have snow several months a year.

mlrtime 4 months ago | [–]

What is your point?

I mean I get it, people don't like sleeping in the snow, but what are you saying? Where are they going when it snows?

You're saying CA cities wouldn't have this problem if it snowed but still gave out billions and allowed open drug usage?

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