Yes, -a Good Deal of your Observation is True on my Side of the Great Atlantic Pond too! I Don't Mean to Apparently Suggest that All our Homeless are Such Survival Experts. In Fact, I Did happen to Mention this in my earlier Post. That a Very Many of Them Certainly are Not! Or at Least Fall Well Short! There are Indeed Many of These as Well!

All Told, -Its a Mixed Bag of the Two Types. Along with their Many various Gradations in Between. We've Got our Many NON Experts, who in a Hope Against Hope Fashion, -Just Try Begging and Bumming Money, in the Ways you've said!

But at the Same Time, -Others Among the General Homeless Crowd, -Are Quite Good to Expert at their Form of Survival! And So Have Built Up a Pretty Good Knowledge Base by now! Of Their Particular Sub-Area of Survival as a Whole.

This Great Body of Knowledge Certainly *Hasn't* Been Gleaned from the Likes as you Readily See!

The One whose Written the Link that Someone's Provided for me / Us, -Here in This Thread, -Certainly Qualifies into this Second, "Better Survival" Category!

All Told among the Homeless as a Whole, -Both Kinds Abound! Comparative Percentages I Know Not. But a Generally Mixed Bag of Both Kinds, is the Operative Truth in the Matter, here.

The Ones you so See, However, -Can Make it Understandably Seem as if the Entire Group were Overwhelmingly to Entirely So!

Whatever the Actual Percentages or Numbers, -You've Got your Brits, I Know, -Who Shud Homelessness Unfortunately Come their Way, -*Aren't* Going to Just Roll Over and Die! Just as we Have this Subset here on our American Side of the Pond too.

They are Not Among the Group you Typically See. They are at Least Oftentimes, -Trying to Survive in Other, Better, Ways! They Know Better!

Thats a Large Part of the Reason you Don't Readily See Them!, -In with the "Other Bunch"! But This "Better Survival Subset", is a Part of Any Overall Homeless Group, Anywhere in the World!

Sure, Some of Them may Often Hold Out a Change Cup, "Like" Others. But There are Many Larger Differences, as Oppossed to Similarities, -Between the Two Subgroups!

My Friend, I Mean neither to Be Nor Sound Cross in Any Way! And I am Not Cross so! I'm just Stating my Views, Observations, and Differences, -In and Of Themselves. <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> [color:"black"] [/color] [email]joblot[/email]