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Re:What American Mental Health Care Is Missing by 908B64B197 on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:46PM (#30336308)
> this isn't normal anywhere else in the world.

You might be disappointed [0].

And that's in a place where they have “Universal” socialized healthcare. I mean, a lot of the people on the streets are natives, so I guess they don’t really count as real citizens anyways.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FdTlZbUb14

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Re:What American Mental Health Care Is Missing by JSavageOne on Monday February 14, 2022 @11:22PM (#30342749)
That does look pretty bad. I've never actually been to Canada.

In any case, the U.S, especially NYC, SF, LA, and Seattle is still worse than anywhere I've been in this regards.

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Re:What American Mental Health Care Is Missing by 908B64B197 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @12:21PM (#30349471)
Definitely is; NYC wasn't as bad as the west coast cities you named, but it's been a few years since I visited.

Part of the reason is the “temperate” climate in those coastal cities making it possible to live in an RV or camp most of the year. The other one is that there’s a policy of not preventing the encampments in the first place (check out Santa Monica for instance).

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