Do you return shopping carts/trolleys?

Wal Mart cart outside my apartment. The nearest Wal Mart is MILES away. Hopefully just dumb ass kids. Last thing I need is a transient/addict problem in the vicinity.

The hill they had to have pushed groceries up ....

This was outside of my apartment building.

Wow, that cart's already practicing for the Kroger buyout.

Kroger's buying Albertsons, who owns Safeway.

The closest Safeway is a mile and a half.

Reinforces my point

Seriously though. That's almost far for a cart to be

There’s a homeless man that lives across from the Safeway. I wonder if he’s moved into my neighborhood.

What makes you think he is homeless?

It has happened twice more since then. I sure wish the owners gave a fuck about anything but collecting rent.

fun fact
it's been shown to cost ass little as 40% as much to house and provide supports as it does to leave them outside and unsupported.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/new...fective-than-status-quo-study/article4563718/

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/4/9/doing-the-math-on-housing-the-homeless

https://www.homelesshub.ca/costofhomelessness

also, most recently unhoused folks stick around their neighbourhoods before migrating to urban centers/concentration of resources.

now that's adorable... what do you propose your landlords should/can do?

(although, as it's happened twice more, it might be a simpler and safer bet that it's just one of your neighbours. homeless folks tend to hang on to the carts they swipe)

How about they take action against shitbags stealing shopping carts and littering up the property with them? YOU might enjoy the idea of living in a fucking ghetto dump, but I don't.

Sometimes when I am sad I think of this poll and remember that there are still good people in this world. But then I also remember we post at Wordforge.

See, this is what I'm talking about with you being enraged by your own caricature of me.... what qualifies as a "ghetto dump" in your world?

Is it the tree lined residential streets? The multiple grocery stores in walking distance? Access to schools? Transit?

Hell, about the only real problem we have here is suburbanites and university kids coming down to party on the weekends.

You want to "take action", you probably only need to figure out which one of your neighbours got their driver's license suspended.


Shame that your slumlords only care about collecting the rent. Now that my building is non profit, we're able to put money (and get tax rebates) towards improving the building. New roof and potentially a deck/green space (serious grants available for pollinator gardens) going on this summer, surface renovations to all the units... because some of these are necessary due to wear and tear, rents can't go up... It's like ownership comes with responsibility rather than parasitic passive income.

A place where addicts and transients are creeping around all hours, stealing shit and leaving messes everywhere.

Irrelevant.

That is a job, and I don't work for free.

Parks with children laughing and playing.
McDonald's playland.
Beaches with laughing children, and joyous lovers.
Karaoke bars.
Basically anywhere with ebullient human activity of any kind.

You've carried water for Ayn Rand for 20 years, and the ARI has yet to cut you a check.
You might want to get a lawyer on that.