r/raleigh • u/Unusual-Horse-7709 • 28d ago

Question/Recommendation Anyone else live very close to a large homeless camp?

I hope this post doesn't get too controversial, but it's getting to a point where I no longer want to work in my garden when I'm home alone. More people have been approaching our home lately. Me, my partner, and even his mom on separate occasions have been asked for things. We've had multiple things stolen, mostly small, but with kids things get left outside.

Do you have a homeless camp within a block or two of your home, and if so, how do you deal with it?

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u/tzulover 28d ago

Oh shut up and get a clue. These encampments aren’t due to people down on their luck and laid off from their job. The majority of homeless that are approaching people at their home and stealing things are on drugs and/or alcohol or suffer from mental illness.

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u/Elegant_Effort1526 28d ago edited 28d ago

Just to give my opinion on it, don’t be so judgmental. I lost my job in 2023 out of no where. Been there 10 years, top performer, they shut my whole department down of 300 employees out of nowhere and no warning. If it wasn’t for the fact that I spent years saving a little here and there I would have been out couch surfing in 6 months. It took over 14 months to find a new job to pay enough to keep rent/bills paid. And that took most of my savings I worked so hard for. If it happened again, I’m toast.

My mom just got laid off after 22 years in a mgtm position last month. They decided to hire a new manager that would accept half her pay, and said bye bye. She has quite a bit more savings and will be fine. Point is, shit happens.

Hard working, good people that DON’T Have the savings i did, lose their job, lose every thing, end up on the streets, hot, wet, hungry as shit, and turn to drugs for a slight escape from their misery. It happened to a friend of mine in cali. He died in 2024 from an overdose, laying on the damn street. He was an amazing hard working guy. His place burned down, no where to go, no money, eventually picked up a bad habit and it took his life. It’s fucked up out here for a lot of people.

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u/Parody_of_Self 28d ago

They didn't all start out that way

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u/nunyabizz62 28d ago

Talk about getting a clue. People don't live out in the heat and mosquitos for shits n giggles. You're utterly clueless

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u/tzulover 28d ago

Yeah you’re absolutely right. They do it because they live for heroin or meth. That is the most important thing and just about the only thing that will make a person live like that.

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u/Shy_Limp_Dick 28d ago edited 28d ago

Well I mean the stats of people on heroin that started on prescribed medication is crazy high. Above 70 percent in some cases. These pharma companies ravaged America 10 years ago with little repercussions, and with no affordable health care I don't see people getting the help they actually need.

But yeah fuck the homeless it's always their fault

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u/D0UB1EA Cheerwine 28d ago

People don't throw away their lives when there's still hope.

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u/Strong_Landscape_333 27d ago

Most people do their drugs in a house or an apartment

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u/nunyabizz62 28d ago

🤡

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u/tzulover 28d ago

You know what you should do? You should go out there and give them money and food and clothes and offer to bring them job applications. I’m sure you’d be welcomed with open arms. And when the weather is shit, you should go get a big bus and bring them into your home. They’re harmless people just down on their luck because of capitalism and job loss right?

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u/Cavatica83 28d ago

yes this is actually it

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u/bpvanhorn 27d ago

I've done that occasionally - invited people inside to have food and a shower.

Not saying I'd invite every struggling homeless person into my home, but, I also wouldn't invite everyone who rents an apartment into my home, or everyone who owns their home.

People are people.

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u/nunyabizz62 28d ago

Time for you to go.

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u/ILaughAtYourTears 27d ago

They certainly do to just get money. The shopping center near me has the same 3 able bodied men sitting at the entrances begging 5 days a week from like 7 am to 7 pm. Help wanted signs with no experience required all over the place. They could clearly make it to work there but they choose to be a pimple on the ass of society instead.

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u/KalisKitten 27d ago

You’re closer to them than you’ll ever be to the upper class. Remember that.

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u/tzulover 28d ago

Obviously I’m referring to the parents of babies..really? I’m not an expert but everyone knows that’s what’s going on and why people live in tents and commit crimes and do not want help to live any differently. Maybe the mostly left-leaning Reddit doesn’t like to see it but the rest of the world does. Do you honestly think those encampments aren’t due to rampant drug or alcohol use? That they are full of families that are just laid off at their 9 to 5 and searching for jobs? They like living like that. And they don’t give a shit about taking anything you own if it means they can keep getting high.