I can hear your brain overheating as you type, trying to crank out some way to justify your obvious racism. It’s funny because I believe you believe you’re not racist but you are undeniably having racist thoughts. And all in an attempt to prove someone else is racist. What a joke. Maybe think a little more next time before you automatically regurgitate some white knight bullshit on the internet. You only expose your own racism by doing so.

You do realize that all immigrants are not of a single race right? Maybe in your head you are imagining some racist stereotype of an immigrant but that’s on you bub, not me.

> race baiting

You are the only one who brought up race. It says a lot about you that that's the first thing you thought of after reading my comment.

I did indeed misread that.

That's much better. Could still be better, but much better than 1000 every ten years.

> Let's be conservative and say each apartment hosts 60 housing units on average.

Are you crazy? The average apartment building in Maine has maybe six apartments at most, and the apartments Maine housing built a decade ago had two apartments each, basically duplexes.

Nobody said it was terrible. In fact I made a point to say, "And I am not saying they shouldn't be." But go on and keep trying to create drama.

Came here to say this. Building 1,000 apartments in ten years is not going to solve the problem. Even if those homes are only for low income households, not many will go to the homeless. They will be snapped up by single mothers and immigrants as quick as they are built. And I am not saying they shouldn't be, but the point is, 1,000 stretched out over 10 years is not near enough to meet demand.

Despite that, most of them have been more than happy to raise their prices regardless.

Last time I bought eggs at Whole Foods there wasn't a single carton for less than $7, and that was before the recent price increase.

I'm pretty sure Christmas Tree shop sells Micky Mouse shaped cookie cutters, though it might have been a seasonal thing.

Even if you dont consider yourself a good cook, I bet your sister will love the cookies even more if they are hand made!

That's certainly some food for thought, however the fact is that lobster was very plentiful at one point and now it's considered an expensive food. If early colonists were indeed subsisting off lobsters for a time as the article suggests, then that would certainly give credence to it being such a readily available food that people would get sick of it, and eventually only the people who couldn't afford an alternative might eat it, however even that doesn't make much sense, because if they could get lobster then they would also have access to crab, tons of shellfish as well as regular fish which even now are quite easy to gather or catch year round.

On a side note I have always been a bit perplexed at how many people died in the early colonies from starvation. It's the middle of January right now and I can easily go the coast and gather mussels, fish for Pollock and even grabs still are plentiful (which would have been even more plentiful back then). I suppose they just didn't have the knowledge of readily available food back then.

Sounds gross but with the right cook that could make a delightful bisque!

I've only been to jail once (failure to show up in court over a fine I forgot about) but I had some really good food while there. Just depends who's on kitchen duty.

Because it was cheap, not because it was bad. Lobsters used to be so plentiful they would wash up on the shore and you could fill a bucket just by walking the beach in the morning.

Of course even lobster will start to taste bad if you have to eat it every other meal.

Would you settle for a Dwarf with gigantism?

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.

I'm looking on several different rental sites right now to make sure I am not out of touch, and there are dozens of listing for under $1000, some even under $800.

On top of that there are tons of job openings for $15+ an hour. My drug addict brother just got a line cook job for $17 an hour, although he will undoubtedly quit after two weeks like he does all his jobs.

When I say there is no homeless problem I am not saying there are no homeless people. It's about the root cause.

I pay $800 a month for rent in Lewiston. Everyone I know who rents pays less than $1,000. It's also pretty easy to find a job paying $15-$20 an hour with no experience if you live in a more expensive area, but of course if you are an addict you probably wont get hired at those jobs or last long if you do.

I know rent prices suck but it's still very doable.

In the article it says he also receives food stamps and has Mainecare. He currently buys his food at a Cumberland Farms which is way more expensive than a grocery store, so he gets plenty of food stamps.

$300 a week is more than enough to afford rent. Yes, it sucks that most of your check will go to rent, but that's just how it is right now. There are better jobs out there, but one way or another he became an addict so his options are crap until he gets his life together.

Drugs are the problem. Most of the time they are the cause, not the consequence, of homelessness. People dont become homeless and then resort to drugs, they become addicts, alienate everyone in their life, and then become homeless.

There of course are outliers, but the last study I read reported that over 95% of homeless suffer from either mental illness or addiction.

Ironically the ones who don't suffer from those ailments are choosing to be homeless and no ammount of public assistance is going to make them move into a crumby one room apartment.

>Moody also suffers from a condition shared by many homeless: drug addiction. He spends $40 here and there for methamphetamines,

And there is your problem. He makes enough to afford rent, or his drug habit, but not both. He choose drugs. He goes to the methadone clinic but still buys drugs, and if he tells you he spends $40 a day on his habit he probably spends $80. That's just how it is.

I come from a family of addicts. I could give my brother $1000 to pay for rent every month on top of what he makes from his job, and he would still spend it on drugs instead of rent.

There isn't a homeless problem in Maine, there is a drug/mental illness problem.

They are pretty good when eaten in moderation. Two of them make a perfect meal but if you go for a third they start to taste weird for some reason.

Oh no! Now where am I going to pay $30 a pound for frozen lobster!?

As a single guy living alone I just opened a can of peas, a can of cranberry sauce, poured some water on some dehydrated potatoes and dumped some canned gravy on them and honestly it was as good as anything my family used to make.

I didn't feel like cooking a whole turkey though so I made myself a cheeseburger as the main dish instead.

Only think I feel like I'm missing is the stuffing. The boxed stuff is never as good as home made.

If you go at like 7pm on a Tuesday you might get lucky. Most people experience internet issues first thing in the morning though so it's super crowded as soon as they open at 10AM.

I'm seriously wondering if this is my old suv I just sold. Based on the facebook post it's the same beige color and year, and one of the things that was wrong with it when I sold it was that it badly needed a new muffler.

Here is your reddit gold sir.