Posted on 08/07/2018 12:53:37 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The number of non-homeless people sleeping in McDonald’s restaurants across Hong Kong in southeast China has increased six-fold over the past five years, a new study has found.
The study, organized by Junior Chamber International’s Tai Ping Shan, was conducted in June and discovered that 334 people have slept in a McDonald’s restaurant nightly over the past three months — a six-fold increase from a study conducted in 2013, which showed only 57 people routinely slept in McDonald’s.
According to the research, reported by South China Morning Post, 84 of 110 24-hour fast food branches had seen regular overnight sleepers.
What is unusual about the sleepers, dubbed “McRefugees,” who range between 19 and 79 years of age, is that 57 percent of them have jobs and nearly 71 percent of them had homes that they either rented or owned.
The trend is partially fueled by rising rents and substandard housing the makes life "unbearable" during the summer months, South Morning China Post reported.
The McRefugess instead turn to the fast food chain to sleep to save on air conditioning costs as well as transportation costs. Some of the McRefugees stated that unaffordable housing forced the poor into unsafe living conditions — many of which do not have any windows — that led them to seek safe shelter at the fast food chain, South China Post reported....
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The Chinese McDonald’s restaurants appear very well done inside.
I wonder what would be the results of a similar survey in the U.S.
Youtube. Look up McDonalds fights. Rather entertaining those Amish.
I imagine it will be Starbucks in the United States, soon if they have not already started adopting that bastion of far-left "tolerance".
McAirBnB, only $7.50 per hour to nap. No pay, no stay.
Hey San Francisco!, your troubles are over.
There are ONE HUNDRED AND TEN McD’s in HK??? It’s not that big a place!!!
I dont find this unusual. The bums and trannies do the same thing at every McDonald’s here in Hollywood...
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