Went to #Vancouver Canada this past weekend for the first time. Wow, the city is beautiful, tall and nestled amongst the trees.
Unfortunately, the number of homeless people I saw milling about on Hastings St was really so depressing.
I thought that I was somewhat inured to such sights after years walking through downtown San Francisco and Portland, but this was a whole new level of human suffering.
Dozens and dozens of people. Block after block.
Fuck.
Mike McCaffrey :pdx_badge:
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