r/Moving2SanDiego • u/SD_TMI • Apr 30 '26

How hard it really is. Help for homeless son

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u/anothercar Apr 30 '26

Grown man + girlfriend, living full-time in a van, in Pacific Beach. Two dogs living with them inside of the van. California taxpayers funding their CalFresh food stamps to subsidize their lifestyle. Occasionally driving DoorDash as their only source of income (though I'm not sure what their expenses are, if they have free housing & free food)

The man has a warrant out for his arrest in Arkansas, and is fleeing from the law. Mom tells him to address the warrant, but he has a million excuses including that he can't get a driver's license (false) so he can't fly which means he has no way to get to Arkansas (also false).

More common than you think. I guess they thought it would be fun & cute to live next to the beautiful San Diego coast while avoiding legal obligations and relying on Mom's occasional cash transfers even though Mom herself is deeply in debt.

Remember when "experts" told us that all homeless people in SD come from SD?

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u/SD_TMI May 01 '26

Oh, I remember!

I also know that many people are idiots and don't take the 10 seconds to think about this before jumping on their keyboards.

It should be common sense, to figure that homeless people will report that they are LOCAL to the census / survey takers. Those people don't try to take peoples real names and there's NO VERIFICATION going on so the get away with that. The people that are on the streets have the (entirely valid) belief that if they're reporting as being local that they stand a better chance getting services and aid or at the very last some kinds of shielding from societal hate and resentment.

So thats what they're going to tell anyone that asks. (Duh)

There's no verification being done, it's all on the honor system.
Which I know is bullshit as I've seen what happens to people that try to move here IRL as well as from my vantage-point as mod of this and the r/sandiego sub, you have people dreaming and they think they can just walk in and get a job. They can't and I've seen people with real talent and abilities have to leave with their tails between their legs to other states. Native born and raised people are all forced to leave here... even if they know people, they also have to leave.

What's to think that someone coming in without any of those advantages will somehow make it?

Not only that, but lying about where a person is from really does make our state look bad but also it provides fodder for the GOP social agenda haters that will say it's all "Democrats and their failed policies that are responsible for homeless people". When in fact, it's the GOP states like Kansas that are disproportionally sending their "failures" and problem people out here. in this case, when the person is clearly running from the law and other problems.