Now that's funny.The other regret is resigning from our HOA board as the new board members are a bunch of brainless knuckleheads.
Tent cities have also sprung up all over Minneapolis. Minneapolis has the largest urban Native American population in the U.S. A very large percentage of those living in these tent cities are Native American, many with issues of chemical abuse. The city, county, and social service agencies are desperately trying to remedy the situation but many in the homeless population are refusing to cooperate because the shelters and temporary living quarters are alcohol, drug, and smoke free.If there’s anything I regret it’s that there are so many homeless in our society and that over the past few years my beloved city has apparently become a center for their tents and campsites. Official estimates vary widely between 5,000 to as many as 10,000 individuals in Portland. Local governments are obviously clueless as to how to deal with things regardless of their political yammering. Local home and property owners that are being impacted are fit to be tied. Social service agencies are heroically doing what they can…and apparently not making a dent. The homeless themselves obviously don’t know what to do…or they wouldn’t be homeless. There is seemingly no solution in sight.
"Insane"???From personal contact regarding homeless encampment, many of them weren’t homeless because they have no where to go. They are there because they are either drug addicts, insane, or they refuse to abide by basic norms in their respective family units. My time in San Francisco was enlightening on the subject.
This is my first post in a long while. I hope you all and your families are doing well.
2021 will go down as the best year of my life and quite possibly the busiest. Retired from a long career in federal law enforcement and took a job at my alma mater; sold in one city, moved, and bought our current home; my oldest daughter got married to a man I'm proud to call my son in law; my youngest daughter recently earned her bars and is a 2nd LT in the USMC; and I was informed earlier this week I'm going to be a grandfather.
My regret is that it took me 53 years to realize what true happiness feels like and I had it in front of me the whole time.
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