Posted on 04/19/2015 4:40:50 PM PDT by Libloather
On Reddit, he’s /u/huckstah, an administrator on /r/vagabond, a subreddit with nearly 10,000 members—many of them identify as “homeless”—who trade skills and stories. On “the road and the rails,” he’s Huck, and even after we speak twice by cellphone, he tells me he’d prefer I don’t print his real name. “People say, ‘Well, you chose to become homeless.’ But that’s wrong,” he says. Huck says he’s been a hobo for upward of 11 years and started hopping trains and hitching rides at 18. “I did not choose to become homeless. If you want to say I chose to become homeless and sleep on the streets, really all I have to say is f--- you. You’ve never experienced it.”
Or maybe you have experienced it, thanks to the recent Great Recession that caused a spike in homelessness—especially for families—with its tidal wave of foreclosures. And if you have, there’s a good chance you were probably one of the many homeless with a mobile device, a sight that has become increasingly common. The ubiquity of cheap phones and even cheaper data has prompted even longtime homeless to join the growing ranks of people with a cell connection but no house. “The day I started on the road, I had a flip phone, an iPod, a TomTom GPS, an atlas, a laptop, and free Wi-Fi wasn't very easy to find,” says a medic who’s been a hobo for four years and asks me to identify him as “Nuke.” (“I have a pretty decent amount of training and experience in treating combat trauma.”) He now lives out of a ’91 Ford pickup and says, “I have a smartphone, a laptop, and free Wi-Fi is everywhere.”
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“Is that how they get their monthly Husseincare premium bill?”
That is ridiculous on so many levels. For one point, I believe those with what you call “Husseincare” receive housing.
Why do you even post if you can not add anything positive?
The article is correct, no one ‘chooses to be homeless. All it takes a circumstances to match up with a couple of poor decisions and there you are. . .
Homelessness is not impossible to escape but at times some offers to help have too many strings. Also, after being homeless for a while a person learns there is a kind of freedom with the title.
Money line: A--hole is a homeless parasite (I notice he didn't rule out "thievery" from his celebrated "lifestyle") because he likes it.
The LAT does not exist in reality. I actually read some of that rambling wordy cow flop...Somethings never change.
Don’t waste your time with LAT. It’s about 98 percent BS, 100 percent of the time.
Like this article on this thread...Utter BS.
I know plenty of homeless who chose to be homeless for the very “freedom” you mention. They come into mission looking for handouts. When offered employment or a place to live they aren’t interested.
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