A Jesuit that I know just spent six months in Portland, and noted how much it had changed since he last spent significant time there about 25 years ago. He quipped (presumably not originally) “Portland, where young people go to retire.”
Apparently many of the homeless (or rather tent and shanty dwellers) are people who got tire of living in their parents basements and simply prefer to be on the street with their friends.
Thank God I live in Ontario (and not really southern Ontario), although Vancouver and Vancouver Island could support this culture.
Great one. The young people are in for a great big surprise on May 11th when they see 300,000 job applicants wading across the Rio Grande. All those “student loans” they want the taxpayers to pay for will prove out to be a giant waste of other people’s money.