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Originally Posted by David

We spent last weekend in Portland as we’re trekking around the pnw for a couple weeks. Homelessness was bad but only marginally worse than I’ve seen in Houston or other big US cities. The majority of these people just seem crazy. Not sure why it’s worse. Did we used to just lock them all up in hospitals? If so, I guess that’s not affordable anymore.

I do wonder if it’s worse or do we just know about it more. I’ve know some otherwise good people do some really bad things in my 55 years on earth and some bad things I know family members did before I was born so it’s not all recent.

Exactly. Lots of crazy homeless folks everywhere. In Houston, they are here, but more spread out as Houston is very spread out.

And yes, there's always been bad stuff going on.