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Colorado Marijuana Legalization and Rise in Homelessness (Article)
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 708080" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>In San Francisco there are people who $2000 a month for a bed, in a room where dozens sleep, in different shifts. A typical apartment begins at $4000 a month. One bedroom. An unremarkable place.</p><p></p><p>Supply and demand. Jobs. I hear the same thing is so in the shale oil boom in the Dakotas.</p><p></p><p>My son hangs onto the idea of living in the Bay Area. We are from there. But I am priced out. My son stayed free for 2 years when he first left here. He cannot grasp the idea that he cannot live in a high-demand, resource-rich community, without working to earn this lifestyle. He did have the opportunity for subsidized housing in SF. He refused to conform to what was required to get it.</p><p></p><p>Most frustrating? He says IF he lived in the Bay Area he would be productive and would do constructive things, but CAN NOT because our small city does not offer what he needs. Give me a break. Blaming my small but entirely satisfactory community? Which he dismisses as totally full of meth-heads. Yet when we walk through areas of nice homes (where we live) he asks? What work do these people do to afford these homes?</p><p></p><p>Nurses and teachers and accountants; business owners, electricians, ministers...and the list goes on.</p><p></p><p>It frustrates me that my son does not see that life as we live it in this society is based upon investment. What you put in, you will get out (usually.) It is not magic. Life is earned. You earn the life you work for.</p><p></p><p>Is this so hard to grasp? I guess so.</p><p></p><p>I struggle with the idea lately that it is me who has got it wrong. That maybe there is another way to live, that I am not grasping. Maybe there has been a paradigm shift, of which I am unaware. Can somebody help me with this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 708080, member: 18958"] In San Francisco there are people who $2000 a month for a bed, in a room where dozens sleep, in different shifts. A typical apartment begins at $4000 a month. One bedroom. An unremarkable place. Supply and demand. Jobs. I hear the same thing is so in the shale oil boom in the Dakotas. My son hangs onto the idea of living in the Bay Area. We are from there. But I am priced out. My son stayed free for 2 years when he first left here. He cannot grasp the idea that he cannot live in a high-demand, resource-rich community, without working to earn this lifestyle. He did have the opportunity for subsidized housing in SF. He refused to conform to what was required to get it. Most frustrating? He says IF he lived in the Bay Area he would be productive and would do constructive things, but CAN NOT because our small city does not offer what he needs. Give me a break. Blaming my small but entirely satisfactory community? Which he dismisses as totally full of meth-heads. Yet when we walk through areas of nice homes (where we live) he asks? What work do these people do to afford these homes? Nurses and teachers and accountants; business owners, electricians, ministers...and the list goes on. It frustrates me that my son does not see that life as we live it in this society is based upon investment. What you put in, you will get out (usually.) It is not magic. Life is earned. You earn the life you work for. Is this so hard to grasp? I guess so. I struggle with the idea lately that it is me who has got it wrong. That maybe there is another way to live, that I am not grasping. Maybe there has been a paradigm shift, of which I am unaware. Can somebody help me with this? [/QUOTE]
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