It has definitely increased tremendously here as well.
And it started about a year or two before the pandemic.
Before it was entirely confined to downtown, about 10 km from here. Now panhandlers are a regular sight about 2 km from where I live.
They are also seen quite a bit further out too.
The drug issue is not really on the radar much here. At least no more than 20-30 years ago.
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