1,000 people living in tunnels under Las Vegas

Quote from C6H12O6:

Maybe british media want to show that other countries are in worse shape than UK ?
By the way, a simple google search found that the same article has already been published... in 2009. Note the same pictures :D

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...-people-living-in-drains-below-Las-Vegas.html
From PETE SAMSON
US Editor
in Nevada
Published: 24 Sep 2009
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yeah,

I remember seeing those pictures now,

so where do you go to apply for a room?

wonder if you have to pass an interview for membership on the condominum board?
 
I lived in LV for almost 10 years and I really liked it; as far as I know, I'm not the lowest class of person. Once you get away from the strip/downtown areas, it is very much like any other city (except the slot machines in grocery stores, that always seemed wierd). I left in '07 as the housing market was rolling over. I thought their economy would get hit pretty hard since it was very reliant on casinos/construction industry. There just isn't much diversification there. I also felt that the city had grown too large, and consequently faces a serious water supply problem.

Other than those issues, I thought it was a really fun, interesting place to live with so many dining/entertainment options. If you have a compulsive personality or issues with gambling however, then it is a terrible place to live.
 
I never get the total homeless thing for someone who isnt a drug addict or mentally disabled.

get any job. look at craigslist jobs. you can find call center jobs, jobs stacking shelves about anything. You make $10 an hour. but after several weeks you can start to save etc.

Rent a $400 apartment with someone else etc and work as many hours as you can till you move up the ladder.


quick look at craigslist. basic phone jobs one can live on

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/csr/2050043952.html

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/sls/2049821112.html
 
Its surreal in downtown Denver. Some bums sleep on cardboard over steam filled manhole covers for warmth. Black widow spider in a tunnel no thanks.
 
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I never get the total homeless thing for someone who isnt a drug addict or mentally disabled.

get any job. look at craigslist jobs. you can find call center jobs, jobs stacking shelves about anything. You make $10 an hour. but after several weeks you can start to save etc.

Rent a $400 apartment with someone else etc and work as many hours as you can till you move up the ladder.


quick look at craigslist. basic phone jobs one can live on

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/csr/2050043952.html

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/sls/2049821112.html
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Did you actually read those job post? They're looking for permanent part time employees, with very specific days and hours, and 9 dollars an hour. That's the problem with the US today, jobs suck. So after taxes that's maybe 150 bucks a week, and very hard to nearly impossible to find a second job. This is bull shit to have this kind of job in America. I can remember 20 years ago, as a teen ager, jobs paid so much more. The only condition to being hired was that you would agree to work over time.

Today real earnings are much, much lower, and cost have gone through the roof. Where the hell are you going to rent an apartment for 400 bucks? In the ghetto maybe.

Plus, some choose not to be menial slaves. Personally, if I had to work at a call center or Mcdonald's, I would just choose to be home less or die.
 
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Personally, if I had to work at a call center or Mcdonald's, I would just choose to be home less or die.
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And this is the attitude that is killing America. :(
 
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And this is the attitude that is killing America. :(
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Perhaps you need more of a "Darwinian view".... survival of the fittest. Provide for yourself, or perish. And in a biological sense.... once you've passed the age of procreation, you're no longer of benefit to the population. (The PRIMARY purpose of an organism in a population is to pass on its genes... especially in the hope of a beneficial mutation.)

The human society supports many, MANY tit-suckers which in other animal populations would be the first culled... all to the benefit of the population as a whole, of course.

America already has fewer jobs than people to fill them. In other words, we have an excess of people, an excess of labor. What is to be done with these folks? Welfare forever? And if so, let's be honest, how does society benefit by so many excessively consuming resources?
 
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Rent a $400 apartment with someone else etc and work as many hours as you can till you move up the ladder.


quick look at craigslist. basic phone jobs one can live on

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/csr/2050043952.html

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/sls/2049821112.html
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its called clinical depression, and its hard to identify, quantify or get over.

those not having it and watching it from outside can identify it, those suffering from it need outside help,

that help used to come from the associative sector (belonging to a church, club, family, community, etc.)

in short those people need help in becoming self sufficient and standing on their feet again, and very few ever make it back

they have checked out
 
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