Ok i love Puerto Rico but oh my God there are so many homeless people living next to a fast food place there!?

Question

every fast food place we went to there was a hobo next to it asking for money!!!!when i was at San Juan a home less man asked for money and my very wealthy cousin gave him to bucks and then he asked for $10!!!!!i felt like punching him in the face and telling him to stop being lazy and get a job!!!!don't you hate that part about Puerto Rico?Puerto Rico is nice and all but the fact that there are home less people there asking teens and people that are younger makes me sick!!!!what do you think of that?i mean i was just on vacation but that is just annoying!

Answer 1

humm, those are not homeless people, those a drug addicts, heroine junkies, who are asking for money in every corner of a street, next time, pass by them and dont give them anything or say a word to them. why? that way u wont get mugged, its good for ur own safety. lately, the years pass by and everyday i see more and more drug addicts in PR, by the time we reach 2010, PR will be officially known as the island of junkies, God knows i love PR, but the situation is worse and worse everyday.

Answer 2

It is true.  They do not want food. I live and have given one food once (it cost me quite a bit) and all she did was throw the food to the street call me !@#$%^& and *()_+ then told me to got to !@#. After that I never help any of them, I felt bad.  Here there are churches, organizations, groups and ministries that help these people. The San Juan City Police does put of in many areas places where these people can go and get a hair cut, hot food, clean clothes, a bath, medical attention and even help to be placed, or even get a job or an education.

I found out,that most of these hobos, bumbs and addicts do not want help. They love the streets, they love to beg and they love to bother.  One here, last summer was going to steal a camera off a tourists shoulder and my husband saw it and stopped it.  

The reason that many of these persons are on the street without a home is because of mainly drugs. All were drop outs, many lost a job or had a hard time getting a job, and even some were thrown out of the house because the parents did not want their sons or daughters any more. Some are teens.

In the church I was going to, they would give them bath in the morning, breakfast, lunch, dinner and clean clothes because the church had washer and dryer also a big kitchen and industrial stove and refrigerator. Even the pastor and his wife would go with them to court is they had a case and help them out.  All this is free to them at not cost or charge. But instead of staying with the help and doing better, they fall back into drugs and beg for money.  

  They are every where. Many take over abandoned buildings.  It is a tough thing to handle when the mayority of them hate help. When one says no then it is no. He/she cannot be foreced. But I believe that they should be.

Answer 3

Every major city in the US has homeless people, but at the states they have more fuinds to deal with the problem than us here.

Besides there are also drug adicts begging for money, those adicts are not necessarily homeless.

Answer 4

Unfortunately, PR has a lot of drug addicts on the street asking for money. Yes, it is a big problem that PR has but no one do nothing. Some towns get rid of them by translating them to others town and so on. But, the problem is there and every time gets bigger. This situation gives a bad impression of PR but every place has its one defects like here US. For example, I live in Orlando, there are a lot of homeless people on the lights asking for money or food. Its not similar?? Thats why I said that every place has its defects, but overall I hate those drug addits that makes look bad my country.

Answer 5

Homeless are everywhere....

Answer 6

I do understand your annoyance. But don't you think that people who visit the USA have that same feeling.  You speak as if Puerto Rico is the only place that has homeless or people sitting out in front of fast food places asking for money.  Right here in our own cities we have the same thing. Then...you mention that your cousin is very wealthy...are we suppose to feel like he has done something great?  It's as if you are making a point of his having money.  So since he has money, does he give to charities or does he just spend his money on himself and family, taking expensive vacations?  You make it sound as if he was the great one looking down on the peasants doing them a favor.  Give me a break.  Does he give money to the homeless guy/woman standing on the corner in his hometown?  Or does he look at them with dsgust too?  What about yourself?  And if they are drug addicts..have you ever been addicted to something? Most don't want to be that way, but feel there is nothing else for them.  Sure they can choose to get off and get a job, but the drugs got em.  Watch Intervention sometime!

Sorry to get on a soapbox....but your tone just kind of set me off.  Why is the US asking for so many of our dollars to go to third world countries when the homeless and people lost to the drugs are so prevelent right here in the USA.  And Puerto Rico if I'm not mistaken, was at one time a part of the USA until they went independent.  My history sucks...but I think it was something like that.  Hopefully you will not let that one experience stop you from going again...because PR is a beautiful place and the entire island is not what you saw.

Answer 7

That was no Hobo just a drug addict, one time one of them asked my son for a dollar and my son told him that he didn`t have any change , then the drug addict pulled out a wad of dollars from his pocket and asked my son how much change he needed. I pulled my son outta there and told the guy to take a hike, and everybody was laughing. You haven`t been to San Fransisco I guess or Mexico, and the Dominican Republic? They have homeless people there also and they are constantly asking you for money. Travel around my friend and you will see.

Answer 8

I stayed at an upscale hotel and right behind it was a fast food place w/addicts and wacky people asking for $. It was near the beach and it is unfortunate, but in certain parts of Puerto Rico it is more prevelant than others.



Unless you stay at a major resort or a fenced in/gated hotel, you will see this more and more. Not only in PR, but places like Jamaica, Haiti, other Caribbean islands there is extreme poverty. Of course you don't want to see this on your vacation,but it's reality and not always such a rosy world.