because it's a nationwide and even worldwide issue, it affects friends or people I know in said cities, it affects me HELLA badly too where I live, etc. Why not? I feel like I'm a mild journalist doing this and I actually get a good insight.

what’s your weird obsession with finding out how many people are homeless in random cities? touch grass.

Yeah I was shocked by how well people seem to be taken care of in NE. I guess it’s a higher wealth part of the country but so is SF and they can’t house their citizens for shit.

It's pretty rare that I won't see at least 1 homeless person in Providence, but at the same time, I saw more in 1 single day in Los Angeles a few months ago then I've seen in the last 10 years in Providence combined.

Post-oxycontin, heroin/opioids is an everywhere problem. I'm not sure there's a place in America that isn't impacted. Meth has been oddly regional so far. I'm sure there's probably a good explanation for it that.

at least I'm not homeless or a big drug addict

dude I have ADHD, very hyper and I moved recently and am lonely, so this is my social outlet for now. I have a lot of shit on my mind. Maybe you haven't met people like me, not everyone who thinks kinda differently is some completely mental wreck or a bot.

I have ADHD

Not gonna lie I read this as Fortnite the video game at first and was really confused haha

Just moved here from Sacramento. There’s no comparison at all. Tent cities line the highways there. Unless you’re wealthy, chances are you drive by dozens of homeless people every single day. It’s heartbreaking and a huge reason why we moved out (also because we can’t afford it and we don’t want to be in a tent city under I-80).

Everything I heard/was told was, this is new. First hearing before planning is next week I believe and this was the first public meeting of any kind.

Source?

No thats actually such an extreme exaggeration, your friend watches too much news, or lives somewhere outside of providence.

nah you won’t

Half the post titles look like AI prompts.

From California, was in Providence a few weeks ago for about a week. What homeless people?

Depending on the timeline you can wait, there's usually dedicated windows from RIRC for e-waste stuff. Staples/Best Buy are good for the occasional monitor or two.

I think they were supposed to charge a fee but I've usually gotten by for free.

As far as hard drives, there's a risk of recovery but it's fairly low. Unless you're some super high profile, high value target, you probably aren't at risk dropping off shit as-is at recycling locations.

Known working drives in functioning but old equipment carry a little bit of a higher risk but it's still impractical and time-consuming to recovery stuff from a wiped hard drive when you don't even know if there's something worth looking for, so most people don't bother.

I generally don’t just post “bot” but this is an exceptionally strange account— gotta be?

Heroin problem has always been here from what I can tell but in the early 2000's the numbers did seem to rise however not having a meth issue here can be a blessing in disguise. Home grown meth labs are something else

Just looked, and uhh yeah wow.

>CA has had a "meth" problem for decades while RI has barely seen a meth issue here.

Heroin though

Let OP speak for him or herself.

OP was referring to the severity of the issue, not whether they should be fearful of unhoused people.

We've definitely been lagging behind as a state on meth.

Rochambeau library has a (small) e waste collection bin by the bathrooms on the main level. You can also call waste management to do an e waste pickup / but ditto re taking care of your data!