homeless on WP

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Are there any people who frequent WP that actually are currently homeless, living on the street or in their car? If so, where are you located as for country and state? I would really like to socialize with people in this situation as I have been homeless, living in my car and anticipate being in that situation again. Yes, homeless people do use the internet.

I'm not currently homeless but have been for years. I was homeless in NY, Rhode Island, L.A., Nashville and Seattle. In Seattle I stayed on somebody's couch so I wasn't truly homeless. In the other places I slept outdoors in a car or a movie theatre so I was really homeless.

ASS-P is also homeless but was recently banned from using the internet computers at the library because they enacted a new rule about bringing your belongings into the library with you.

I just found out my current DSHS benefits run out in July so I'm potentially staring homelessness in the face again. I'm waiting for federal disability to come through. That probably won't be till October, though, that means I can be homeless for four months or so. Won't be the first time.

Good luck on your disability. I got mine first time within 5 months of applying. It saved my life for the time being, but even with disability income security, if I could go back to the same place I was at in Florida when I was homeless before, I would do it again if I could solve the sleeping problem without having to purchase and have insurance payments on a vehicle. I wouldn't be able to trust a stranger enough to room share.

the thought of being homeless terrifies me.

I found (for me anyway) that it was very liberating, especially if u have any kind of income and don't mind accepting food from charity. I don't need "things". I kept my clothes in a cheap storage unit that sometimes I would sleep in during the daytime with door partially open. I would spend my days on the beach, or at the movies a few times a month, and the city I was in had a fishing pier that was open all night most of the year and I would sleep there sometimes. I really loved it at the time but never realized how much danger I was putting myself in. I found out only after being diagnosed that aspies sometimes don't perceive dangerous situations normally. I really loved it at the time but would be exhausted from not getting enough sleep because back then I was working a full time job too. Well, 36 hours a week, which was good enough for my lifestyle.

You're so right about the dangers in which we put ourselves.

When I was in L.A. I slept in my car in a park in Los Feliz during the day and the parking lot of the West Hollywood Public Library at night. Very dangerous.

When I was in Nashville I slept in my car in a Walmart parking lot most of the time. Sometimes I drove around and just slept in parks or municipal parking lots. That wasn't as dangerous as L.A. but still risky.

When I was in NY I slept in the porn movie houses. You just had to leave the theatre at night for 1/2 and hour while it was being cleaned.

In Rhode Island I stayed at Welcome Arnold, a homeless shelter at night and just wandered around during the day.

I'm too old to be homeless even though I'm nervous about it happening on the horizon.

It's just not safe anywhere, not in the suburbs, not anywhere, to be sleeping in your car. I hope never to do it again.

I used to walk the empty boardwalk at night. Completely alone, seemingly, walking around at 2-3-4 AM and never thought a thing about it until one night I was walking at that time and turned to see behind me in the shadows a person walking quickly toward me from the rear. At the time I carried a cell phone, so I pulled it out and pretended a call. Within 10 seconds, that quickly, he had vanished. I never really thought about the danger even then, but 6 years later, 900 miles away it sometimes haunts me. Even as little as two years ago, living in a town of 200,000, when my disability check would be deposited at 1AM I would walk the streets from ATM to ATM collecting my funds to pay my bills the next day. I do not trust banks and cash out immediately upon deposit of my funds

Did you have a bad experience with banks that you don't trust them?

The world economy is the reason I don't trust banks. And banks don't trust me. I believe the world economy is a deliberate act of sabotage and think that eventually banks are going to steal everything that human beings are foolish enough to trust the banks with.

If you become homeless again perhaps some members in our WP community would be able & willing to take you in for abit depending on where your at in relation to them(I'm not sure where you live) & you could read their posts here to get a feel of em 1st so they won't be strangers in a sense.

Have contemplated the possibility of being homeless sometime in the future.

There is a website called Couchsurfing for people like that. You would have to read their web page to see what its about . I have joined, But just don't thing I am capable of the social chitchatiness of meeting someone for the first time just hours before sleeping on their sofa for one or two nights then vanishing into the wind.

I was homeless for 6 months once with my only access to the internet via the public library.

Internet access was the first thing to come to mind when thinking of homelessness?

In all the times I was homeless, I've had to rely on a public library for internet access. I was lucky in Nashville, though. I was homeless, sleeping in the Walmart parking lot, but I had a laptop.

I used to drive around from business to business, like coffee shops or furniture stores. Sitting outside the establishment on a bench I could sometimes access the internet by logging into an unsecured site. There were quite a few of those in Nashville. L.A., too.

I received little, if no, internet access when I used to stay in the parks. That was a bummer. Then I spilled beer on my laptop which was the end of it.

It was a very small Florida community where I was homeless. Seemingly every homeless person I met had a bicycle. They would be lined up at the library as soon as it opened each day and that was where most of them spent the day. The beach was too hot and crowded with human beings, and the police tried to keep the homeless away from the human beings because, of course, the human beings had money to spend. Contrary to public opinion, homeless people were lined up at the temp agencies at 5;30AM looking for day work instead of just being "lazy bums", but many of them were drunks and druggies. If they were not sent to a job they would be in the library doing whatever it is they do on the computer, and staying cool in the AC. There did seem to be a lot of educated people in the homeless community. The bummer being the only sure place to sleep at night was in a Christian based shelter that required those who wanted to sleep there to attend a nightly sermon before being allowed into the dormitory. "Helping" the needy mandated indoctrination, so I only one time submitted to that bunch of BS. Rather take the chance of having my throat slit while I slept in my car or on a bench.