Re:Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
by airhead969 on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:57AM
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My late paternal grandmother (1 of 9 from a rare single mother) was from there. Cranberry bogs.
You can increase your "street-smarts" by getting out of your comfort zone, by choice or circumstances, and with life experiences. I locale and talk to the saner homeless people, especially the older who are just there by personal circumstances: I met a former teacher and elevator repairman who makes money today as a tutor; a former hippie, Navy radar and aircraft electronics technician, and Apple II rework technician; and a law school dropout, former hippie, merchant marine, and writer for the Village Voice and the NY Daily News.
Re:Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
by jtlisi on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @09:16AM
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Check out this excellent HBO documentary on the topic.
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/heroin-cape-cod-usa
I used to vacation there.
As one of those clueless people who can't buy marijuana in a legal state, I am equally clueless on the signs of terrible addiction if I drove through Cape Cod, MA today.
I'm not sure what makes me more sad -- the existence, or my incapability to notice the existence.