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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Yeah I agree. We ran into quite a few very nice people at the dog beaches that were pretty normal and although I did run into a lot of senior citizens they were all very nice and I recognize that they can be lonely so I don't mind chatting up with them and such. I'm sure there are people in Kelowna as depicted in that video but it's not like they are at every corner. For me maybe the biggest thing was the sheer amount of backpackers, hobos, and homeless. You walk down the streets with your young children and some of these guys look like they just woke up in the ditch with soiled cloths, ratty hair, and a smoke burning between their fingers. Got a lot of; "Daddy is that a homeless person". None of them bothered us but it's just that there's a lot of them around.
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Well, I've been living in what is supposedly the heart of the Kelowna ghetto for a month now. I've encountered homeless people many, many times. Some a-holes, but a lot of them were nice. That isn't the point.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I've heard from multiple sources that many homeless were moved from Vancouver to other cities in the BC interior in preparation for the Olympics. Then you have that story a little while back about other provinces sending transients to BC on a one way bus ticket.
Couple that with the Okanagan climate and I can see why Kelowna has such a large homeless population. Not to mention the fact that it's damn near impossible to find affordable housing here.