Not trying to be pedantic but your spending habits are absolutely going to factor in to your budget.

In this instance, not only does addiction factor in to the budgetary considerations but it factors in to thing like mental/emotional well being, ability to pursue different avenues for work, social/familial relations, and on and on ad infinutm.

If your trying to say rent is high and pay is low, just say that. To say the drugs arent a factor is just blatantly incorrect.

Good point.

Except no one here calls it that. You know how in some places people call the same things by different names? Yeah it's kind of like that. You are not going to get an entire region of the world to start calling something different.

Lol. I’m not concerned with the optics from Reddit folk.

If you remove the cost of drugs, he still doesn't have enough money though. So no, they aren't a factor.

If he became sober tomorrow. No more drug expenses. But surprise! Still can't afford rent.

It's really not. It's not a good look for anyone.

Both of those top recipes are Marjorie standish

"the drugs aren't a factor" that is just one of the most naive statements I've ever heard, good lord. Addiction is extremely costly in about every way imaginable. It absolutely IS a factor, and you're straight up disconnected from reality if you don't understand that.

It's probably sensing the ad popup.

Rt 26 up through Grafton Notch is one of my favorites.

Can't they be mutually exclusive? Not every homeless person is a druggie, and not every druggie is a homeless person.

We can have both problems and tackle both problems. If we help the drug problem, we can help the homeless problem too.

That’s his problem.

Lol. At some point it’s ok to judge one’s actions. A lot of people in this world. Get your shit together or get out of the way.

Some people become homeless because they are drug addicts, but it is also true that many people become drug addicts because they are using to cope with the stresses of homelessness.

Plenty of places for rent in Lewiston for around $800. 30 minutes away from Portland.

But not sure what your obsession with Portland is. You know Maine is a huge state right? If you are homeless why would you choose to live in the most expensive city in Maine?

It's not hard to afford rent if you work $30-40 hours a week. Again, it sucks that rent eats up a lot of that, but that's why programs like food stamps, Heap, the rent rebate programs and Mainecare exist.

Sounds like your standards of living are just so impossibly high that you can't even imagine the reality of living paycheck to paycheck like many people do.

Start with Marjorie Standish. Evolve from there if you like.

Home

You’d have thought they’d have learned after the last time. I was living about a block away then and the thing landed roughly twenty feet from the corner of my apartment. Hell of a noise it made falling too.

$300 a week is $1200 a month. If you found a rental for $800 a month, which is nearly impossible in any place 1 hour reach of Portland, you’d have $400 left for all of your bills. Heating alone would eat up that $400. Add a car and you are fucked, and the vast majority of Maine requires a car because we have shit transit. At $1000 you’d have $200 after rent. Most rentals are $1.2-1.6k a month.

You are living in a different time and under a rock if you think $200-400 a month is enough to live in after rent. It’s not 1970, it’s 2023 where eggs cost $6 a dozen and gas is $3.50+ a gallon.

Mum used to make the creamed corn recipe and it was "meh" but as my dad always said: ""If you're hungry enough, you'll eat your mum's cooking"""

As others have said, dehumidifiers are expensive. Do you really need that in the winter? Where is your heat pump hot water heater located? It can also provide dehumidification. With ours, which is in the basement, we were able to turn the dehumidifier off and saved $100 month.

Also, consider using only cold water for laundry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2022/11/29/laundry-cold-water-environment/

It sounds like you just like to sit on your high horse and judge.

Where are you living that $300/week is enough to rent something, anything? that isn't a rat infested shithole?

Drugs are A problem, but not THE problem.

Route 11 from Patten to Fort Kent is absolutely amazing.

Likely the only joys he gets out of life. I’ve been there, the only thing getting me through is the next smoke break. (Stopped smoking)