homeless people

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Having been homeless, I have lots of experience with them! In fact, quite a number of my friends are transients. I think it is important to make distinctions between people who are homeless out of conditional circumstances, and those who choose to be without a home. In Vancouver, especially on Hastings St, there is actually a whole community and culture of homeless or transient individuals, often tied in to much drug use and gang activity. In Victoria I have heard many people say it is "easy" to be homeless there because there are lots of resources for individuals without a home or income.

Such individuals are as mixed as any other group in the world. There are the positive ones and the negative ones, and then plenty who are so downtrodden they simply do not care. I have quite a degree of compassion for them because of my own experiences, but at the same time I feel I have gained a wisdom through my experiences that tells me, "You can't save everyone, because not everyone wants to be saved."