Imagine you are suddenly homeless......

[Muhammed]

The problem is that chicks never want to have sex with you if you are as broke as the conditions in the OP. That is the primary problem to resolve. Any ideas?

I've been flat broke and had no problem getting laid.

 

[Muhammed]

no job
no family
clean slate... what would you do to survive and start over?

The same thing I did the first time.

 

[Bonzi]

You have to act like you like them for more than sex. If you are too obvious about it, either faking sincerity or too brutally honest, you are not going anywhere...

 

[Michelle420]

no job
no family
clean slate... what would you do to survive and start over?

I would just give up and shoot heroin until I died.

 

[Gracie]

Someday, maybe I will share my story. It encompasses more than most know. But, it is also pretty depressing to think about so I try to NOT think about it.

No job
No ability to work due to illness
No family
Lose EVERYTHING you loved material wise.
Lose furkids who you loved more than anything. BOTH of them within 6 months of each other.
Nothing left. NOTHING.

And then the commencement battle of whether to continue breathing or not.

 

[anotherlife]

The problem is that chicks never want to have sex with you if you are as broke as the conditions in the OP. That is the primary problem to resolve. Any ideas?

I've been flat broke and had no problem getting laid.

Yes but what if you get kicked out of the bar for non payment before you even get to the first chick?

 

[anotherlife]

What terror does your body inflict on you when you are homeless? Does it drive you to shelters to avoid frost bites? Does it drive you to soup kitchens to avoid hunger? Are these things worth to get attacked for when you are sleeping? Do you understand this whole thing?

 

[Muhammed]

The problem is that chicks never want to have sex with you if you are as broke as the conditions in the OP. That is the primary problem to resolve. Any ideas?

I've been flat broke and had no problem getting laid.

Yes but what if you get kicked out of the bar for non payment before you even get to the first chick?

What if it starts raining frogs?

 

[yiostheoy]

no job
no family
clean slate... what would you do to survive and start over?

Homelessness can happen at any time to anybody.

Best thing is to keep a backpack stocked and ready to go.

If you are a backpacker you already have this ready.

If not it can serve as your bug-out bag.

And if you become homeless then you just go on a long backpack trip lasting the rest of your life.

Oh well.

All is as God wills it.

 

[yiostheoy]

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I would go "underground" for shelter, clothing and food then, hunt down and kill the people responsible for it happening..
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Only a psychopath who collects injustices to themselves would hunt anyone down.

All you can really do is start backpacking. it's nice if you can bring your bicycle with you.

 

[yiostheoy]

okay so I potentially faced this situation (but didn't) but gave it a lot of thought.
Granted, I wanted to not be found, so, different kind of a story, but, I did think about it as a better alternative than my current living conditions

If I could not be employed, I suppose I would look for all the local resources to help me get established again. I would start at a city hall or office and go from there asking for help.

I'm assuming here you are an able bodied citizen. But, even if you are not and have health needs, I would still pursue the same avenue.

In the meantime, I would seek water and food where ever it was available. There are MANY people that would gladly buy you food, especially in liberal towns (normally college towns), and that's not even including food banks etc.

I would seek shelter alternately between public library, hospitals, airports, bus terminals and/or casinos if available.

You can stay with me Bonzi .

You would have to share the bed with me and the cat.

Rules are no smoking and no dope.

 

[yiostheoy]

The Homeless Illustrate a Growing Divide...

In Silicon Valley, the Homeless Illustrate a Growing Divide
November 07, 2017 — In the same affluent, suburban city where Google built its headquarters, Tes Saldana lives in a crowded but tidy camper she parks on the street.

She concedes it's “not a very nice living situation,” but it also is not unusual. Until authorities told them to move, more than a dozen other RVs filled with people who can't afford rent joined Saldana on a tree-lined street in Mountain View, parked between a Target and a luxury apartment complex. Homeless advocates and city officials say it's outrageous that in the shadow of a booming tech economy - where young millionaires dine on $15 wood-grilled avocado and think nothing of paying $1,000 for an iPhone X - thousands of families can't afford a home. Many of the homeless work regular jobs, in some cases serving the very people whose sky-high net worth is the reason housing has become unaffordable for so many.

A group of homeless people, including Ellen Tara James-Penney (wearing blue) left, a lecturer at San Jose State University, receive a meal at Grace Baptist Church in San Jose, California​

Across the street from Saldana's camper, for example, two-bedroom units in the apartment complex start at $3,840, including concierge service. That's more than she brings home, even in a good month. Saldana and her three adult sons, who live with her, have looked for less rustic accommodations, but rents are $3,000 a month or more, and most of the available housing is distant. She said it makes more sense to stay in the camper near their jobs and try to save for a brighter future, even if a recent city crackdown chased them from their parking spot. “We still need to eat,” said Saldana, 51. “I still want to bring my kids, once in a while, to a movie, to eat out.”

People ride colorful bikes on the Google campus in Mountain View, California​

She cooks and serves food at two hotels in nearby Palo Alto, jobs that keep her going most days from 5 in the morning until 10 at night. Two of her sons, all in their 20s, work at a bakery and pay $700 toward the RV each month. They're all very much aware of the economic disparity in Silicon Valley. “How about for us people who are serving these tech people?” Saldana said. “We don't get the same paycheck that they do.” It's all part of a growing crisis along the West Coast, where many cities and counties have seen a surge in the number of people living on the streets over the past two years. Counts taken earlier this year show 168,000 homeless people in California, Oregon and Washington - 20,000 more than were counted just two years ago.

Paige Clem sits in the car she lives in along with her husband and three dogs outside a church where free food was being distributed in Everett, Washington​

The booming economy, fueled by the tech sector, and decades of under-building have led to an historic shortage of affordable housing. It has upended the stereotypical view of people out on the streets as unemployed: They are retail clerks, plumbers, janitors - even teachers - who go to work, sleep where they can and buy gym memberships for a place to shower. The surge in homelessness has prompted at least 10 local governments along the West Coast to declare states of emergency, and cities from San Diego to Seattle are struggling to come up with immediate and long-range solutions. San Francisco is well-known for homeless tent encampments. But the homeless problem has now spread throughout Silicon Valley, where the disparity between the rich and everyone else is glaring.

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In California they live in tent colonies in the river and creek forests.

They steal anything and everything not guarded to make money for dope.

 

[yiostheoy]

I’d scrape together enough money to buy a decent pair of walking shoes and head to Florida.

Work boots are better -- they support your ankles better.

Otherwise your Achilles tendons will get inflamed and you wont be able to walk.

 

[yiostheoy]

Assuming you mean with no resources, savings, pension, etc, and already living in the best state in which to be homeless - I'd head to the nearest mid-sized town's Salvation Army homeless shelter - where I'd have access to showers, clothing, 3 hot meals a day and emotional support. In return, I'd be expected to honor the curfew and rules concerning alcohol and tobacco. I'd seek a part time job within walking distance of the shelter...or maybe at the shelter itself if available...and go from there.

Money can run out eventually.

 

[yiostheoy]

I'd likely feel at home. lol.

When I was a kid, I'd disappear for days in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Fishing. Hunting. Sitting in a wild strawberry patch all day. Watching butterflies. Making camp fires. I think we have around 200 acres there. That's where I'd go. There's a couple of springs, too.

A country boy can survive. tis true. Hehehe.

I did this during grad school in the mountains too.

Me and my backpack and my 22LR Colt Woodsman shot and ate a lot of grouse, quail, squirrels, and a partridge in a pear tree!

 

[yiostheoy]

I used to go to church for years and every week we had dozens of people come in and ask for money. The Pastor would offer them simple jobs around the church to earn the money, but the just would not do it. This is VERY common.

Think about it... what would be easier, cleaning a toilet in a church, or standing on a street corner all day asking for money? Oh and don't get me started there.. in the town I live near, there are MANY panhandlers and guess what? The only panhandle during nice weather! I mean, even if it's 45 and sunny, none to be found.

Back when I was a Theist I used to go to church too.

Now I am a Deist and I don't waste time with churches anymore.

 

[Gracie]

The Homeless Illustrate a Growing Divide...

In Silicon Valley, the Homeless Illustrate a Growing Divide
November 07, 2017 — In the same affluent, suburban city where Google built its headquarters, Tes Saldana lives in a crowded but tidy camper she parks on the street.

She concedes it's “not a very nice living situation,” but it also is not unusual. Until authorities told them to move, more than a dozen other RVs filled with people who can't afford rent joined Saldana on a tree-lined street in Mountain View, parked between a Target and a luxury apartment complex. Homeless advocates and city officials say it's outrageous that in the shadow of a booming tech economy - where young millionaires dine on $15 wood-grilled avocado and think nothing of paying $1,000 for an iPhone X - thousands of families can't afford a home. Many of the homeless work regular jobs, in some cases serving the very people whose sky-high net worth is the reason housing has become unaffordable for so many.

A group of homeless people, including Ellen Tara James-Penney (wearing blue) left, a lecturer at San Jose State University, receive a meal at Grace Baptist Church in San Jose, California​

Across the street from Saldana's camper, for example, two-bedroom units in the apartment complex start at $3,840, including concierge service. That's more than she brings home, even in a good month. Saldana and her three adult sons, who live with her, have looked for less rustic accommodations, but rents are $3,000 a month or more, and most of the available housing is distant. She said it makes more sense to stay in the camper near their jobs and try to save for a brighter future, even if a recent city crackdown chased them from their parking spot. “We still need to eat,” said Saldana, 51. “I still want to bring my kids, once in a while, to a movie, to eat out.”

People ride colorful bikes on the Google campus in Mountain View, California​

She cooks and serves food at two hotels in nearby Palo Alto, jobs that keep her going most days from 5 in the morning until 10 at night. Two of her sons, all in their 20s, work at a bakery and pay $700 toward the RV each month. They're all very much aware of the economic disparity in Silicon Valley. “How about for us people who are serving these tech people?” Saldana said. “We don't get the same paycheck that they do.” It's all part of a growing crisis along the West Coast, where many cities and counties have seen a surge in the number of people living on the streets over the past two years. Counts taken earlier this year show 168,000 homeless people in California, Oregon and Washington - 20,000 more than were counted just two years ago.

Paige Clem sits in the car she lives in along with her husband and three dogs outside a church where free food was being distributed in Everett, Washington​

The booming economy, fueled by the tech sector, and decades of under-building have led to an historic shortage of affordable housing. It has upended the stereotypical view of people out on the streets as unemployed: They are retail clerks, plumbers, janitors - even teachers - who go to work, sleep where they can and buy gym memberships for a place to shower. The surge in homelessness has prompted at least 10 local governments along the West Coast to declare states of emergency, and cities from San Diego to Seattle are struggling to come up with immediate and long-range solutions. San Francisco is well-known for homeless tent encampments. But the homeless problem has now spread throughout Silicon Valley, where the disparity between the rich and everyone else is glaring.

MORE

In California they live in tent colonies in the river and creek forests.

They steal anything and everything not guarded to make money for dope.

Yer an idiot. And there but the grace of God goes you.

 

[yiostheoy]

no job
no family
clean slate... what would you do to survive and start over?

Volunteer for the Operation Underground Railroad organization's efforts in Southeast Asia or Africa.
Take another stab at making a lasting and worthwhile mark on the world.

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Yah I would volunteer to become a mercenary somewhere ... go out in a blaze of glory that way ... and kill a few moosleems on the way out ... maybe collect their 72 virgins with full breasts and firm for them.

 

[yiostheoy]

You have to act like you like them for more than sex. If you are too obvious about it, either faking sincerity or too brutally honest, you are not going anywhere...

You mean turn tricks ??

 

[Gracie]

no job
no family
clean slate... what would you do to survive and start over?

Homelessness can happen at any time to anybody.

Best thing is to keep a backpack stocked and ready to go.

If you are a backpacker you already have this ready.

If not it can serve as your bug-out bag.

And if you become homeless then you just go on a long backpack trip lasting the rest of your life.

Oh well.

All is as God wills it.

And I see you are still an idiot.