So this is why all the homeless move to Seattle. We are very generous with our handouts.
So is Everett but there is less tolerance for the other things associated with feeding programs, etc. Today in the Everett Tribune(free newspaper) was an article about people dismayed with panhandling in Snohomish. There are also big debates about civility issues in an around the Everett Library. There is a movement afoot to put Alcohol Impact Areas in downtown Everett.
When I lived near Seattle, it was embarrassing to take out-of-town visitors into that crazy city where no one interferes with “poor homeless” people scamming pedestrians, begging for money, food and drugs, even inside NORDSTROMs fancy schmancy downtown store.
Not kidding. A welldressed Amish woman was often found in Nordie’s cosmetic department trying to scam shoppers out of money. Store did nothing to stop her.
Bangor, Maine is the east coast version.