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MOVING to FLORIDA with 50$ in my pocket , help , URGENT

If you're in FL find a homeless shelter. If you are in NY see if you can stay with friends or if your parents will let you move back in.

Stay safe.
 
If youre under 25...in california, bay area....theres tons of places to eat and the foods awesome....Floridas rough, Streamline your possesions...work day labor...AA is huge down there and if youre clean, Im sure somebody will help ya out...Being homeless in the cold, in the winter sucks ASS to say the least!!
 
It will be more difficult to obtain any government aid, such as food stamps, unemployment or housing,etc. in another state. But if you absolutely have to go to Florida, listen to these other people and look for a homeless shelter. At least you have internet access, that helps immensely. You can hook up with a social worker who could point you in the right direction. You've got a long road ahead of you, trying to start over completely from scratch, but people have done it. Most importantly, don't fall into you're old habits and don't panic. Addicts tend to take things from 0 to 10 in intensity very quickly, I'm guilty of it too. I'm sure if worse came to absolute fucking worse, your parents wouldn't just leave you to sleep in a gutter. Keep us apprised!
 
from point of view of a FL resident for more than 30 yrs -do not go to flori-duh. ever. go anywhere else in the world but stay away from FL.
i could go on for hours about what a shithole the bug filled swamp is but just do yourself a favor and stay in the north where you are currently a resident. there are very few social services and the laws and cops are some of the worst in the county. "come on vacation, leave on probation" is reality, not a joke.
stay home, wherever that may be.
best of luck to you.
-izzy
 
^sorry you have had such a shit time in florida. but to recommend he be homeless in a cold area, to avoid your concerns with florida, is ridiculous.

florida definitely has it's pro's/con's, like EVERYWHERE else in the world. it's what you make of it.
 
There are a lot of homeless people in Orlando and Florida in general. It's not the life you want to live, even if you can find a shelter to sleep in. Is there anyway you can bite your pride and ask your parents to help you out? You really do need their help. This isn't a path you want to go down.
 
Yeah the city of orlando in particular isn't very kind to homeless people. Also saw a lot in Jax last year when I lived there...but i suppose there are worse places weather-wise to be homeless.
 
bmxxx said:
^sorry you have had such a shit time in florida. but to recommend he be homeless in a cold area, to avoid your concerns with florida, is ridiculous.

florida definitely has it's pro's/con's, like EVERYWHERE else in the world. it's what you make of it.
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I didn't have a shit time in Florida. It was a great place for 15-20 years and I made enough money legally to retire by 45 if I'd wanted to quit working. I still own property there, go back every couple months, and have many close long term friends there.

However with $50 in your pocket and nowhere to go, it is a shit place. I honestly don't know of any city/town that is even slightly helpful or tolerant of homeless folks. Very much the opposite. Social services are very poor. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of tent cities. I've been a nurse for 25+ years and I've seen quite a few patients discharged to the street and tent cities who are in wheelchairs, have pic lines, serious wounds, etc. they get no help, nothing and it is deplorable to do such things to people who are seriously ill. I have seen patients in the ER who have been beaten to a pulp by cops who go into the tent cities to run people off. These folks have nothing and no information or help is offered to them.
It is not a good place to go if homeless and several Florida cities have been tagged with "meanest cities in the country" by various publications. I'll look for and post links if I can find the articles.
The summers are brutal, the bugs are beyond description, and it rains daily from May or June until October. From talking to lots of different people, it seems that many folks from other states think you can sleep on the beach, eat fruit from backyard trees, and the living is easy. This is not true at all. Many jobs have absolutely suck wages and rents are high most everywhere.
I've just seen some really sad things happen to folks who were homeless and down on their luck through my work and **IMHO** wouldn't suggest anyone in the OPs situation look to Florida as even a temporary solution.
-izzy
 
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bmxxx said:
^sorry you have had such a shit time in florida. but to recommend he be homeless in a cold area, to avoid your concerns with florida, is ridiculous.

florida definitely has it's pro's/con's, like EVERYWHERE else in the world. it's what you make of it.
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Trouble is, Hobe Sound does not have facilities to give him housing. Another person mentioned Pinellas County which has several shelters. I made phone calls and asked if they take people from out out state. The uniform answer was "NO". Ok what if person lived in Broward - he could use my address but was still told no the person has to have resided in that county. It works the same in Broward, they turn people away because beds are full and their goal is to service people in their own community. Like if I showed up at Miami's House of Hope tomorrow most likely I would not get in once they find out I'm a Broward resident. If I needed to get creative, I would give them my sister's Miami address and tell them I have no ID. That might work. :(

My suggestion would be Covenant House because they don't turn kids away, but you have to be under 21. That's why I would recommend the OP stay in New York, get shelter there until he can get back on his feet. Florida might not be the right place to go.
 
People like to believe Florida is a good place to go to be homeless because of the warm climate. It's also a very cruel city/state to be homeless in because there are so many homeless due to that thinking. People are extremely conditioned to seeing homeless people and beggars in the city basically at every intersection, you won't receive help that way.

One night I went out to get food and we were going to eat it outside around the Orlando lake. Every bench was taken up by a homeless person. We drove around looking for a seat and every place we looked (closed eateries, any place with a chair) was occupied by someone sleeping who was homeless. It's very difficult to pick yourself up here in particular as a homeless person.
 
Lol, this thread brings back memories. I wouldn't recommend being homeless here (in orlando, FL) unless you grew up here. It makes it a lot easier.
 
if i had to recommend being homeless anywhere, it'd be portland. only up until you are 24, though.

the young adult shelters were a lot more helpful than it would have been if i was older. i mean, the older ones were just fucked. there was like one service available for them at night, where as the younger ones had a couple of different places to rotate going during the day. the shittiest part was when both the shelters were closed and the night shelter wasn't open.
the main thing that made this all barely tolerable was the youth shelter system.

i dunno. i think the best way to be homeless would be to go to portland before you are 24 and get signed up with their transitional living situation asap.

other cities might have this kind of a deal, not sure.

people were pretty nice to the homeless kids there.

um...hitchhike to portland or something. just don't wait til you are too old.

plus, if you find a cool place to crash with a friend most of the time you could avoid the night shelter and still hang out in the day shelters to feed yourself, get clothes, and get help getting a job.

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i seriously mean what i said. i would get to portland if you really have nowhere to go. it's a great place to get back on your feet at your age. just don't get caught up in the hard drugs, because you will have access to them and you can kill yourself faster than you can get back on your feet.
 
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I've been homeless or living out of my car in various different places along the years....
the west coast definitely, if your under twenty five, particularly the bay area and every city north up the coast....
All west coast cities seem to have a really huge "homeless kid drug scene" though
But Portland, at least USED to be the most doped out place on the west coast from what I saw....
New York? I'm not sure if the OP is from there or not, but, if not.....a big resounding, FUCK THAT!
I'm from the northeast and it's the last place i'd wanna kick it on the street....
I mean....the west coast, parts of Colorado, Arizona I've heard....certain liberal college towns sprinkled here and there...
But Florida, IME can be a lonely, depressing place to be alone with no money or transportation...
Better option than New York, though...
Of course, I kind of enjoy living like a transient weirdo from time to time.....It's not for everybody
 
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