I could teach you how to survive homeless in Los Angeles Bambu...
First of all, stay in the nice areas, and stay clean, and always behave yourself properly.
A friend who taught me how to be homeless told me that if you steal from people then they will hate you, but if you humble yourself and ask for help, then they will help you. He was an orphan, and he went to Hawaii with just a plane ticket and no money at 16 years old.
Resort towns are easy places to survive.
The hotels and motels have free coffee and donuts, etc, at breakfast time. Then you go somewhere and shower. On the beach they usually have free showers. I used to shower in Beverly Hills at the Beverly Hills Free Clinic. Then you could go to the mall in Beverly Hills, it is right by where you shower. You can check out the stores, and there are restaurants where people eat outdoors, and when they walk away from the table you can eat their left-overs and the left-overs are wonderful Beverly Hills food, the left-overs are great. Just never steal the tip money on the table or they will hate you, take the left-overs and do not touch the money on the table. Then if you are without a car then you can sleep on the roof of the mall after it closes. And you can buy clothes at thrift stores, etc, and do laundry at laundromats, you gotta stay clean. You can shave in the bathroom at Carl's Jr, or any other fast food place. If you have a car, you can go to the Griffith Park Observatory and you can park and watch the sunset over Hollywood. You can drink beer in your car. This is a good time to chill. Then at ten at night they kick you out of the parking lot, so you can go to the Hollywood Hills to sleep, be sure to park under a tree so that you are shaded from the hot sun in the morning, you can die from being in a hot car, park under a tree before you go to sleep. Then you get up in the morning, and go eat free donuts and have coffee, and go shower, and start your day over again.
But, it does not have to be hard like that. If you are older and wiser then you can have a better life.
You can go to Nevada, and work at a casino, those are good jobs, and it is cheap to live in Nevada, rent is cheap there. You can go to the Colt Inn Casino and they have an RV Park where you can live while you work a job at the Colt. Then, you can move into a nicer place when you can afford it.
https://www.facebook.com/Colt-Inn-Casino-141461475895419/Or even easier...I know a wealthy lady from the Philippines who helps the homeless, she owns mansions, and she puts the homeless people in the mansions, and she pays people to watch over the homeless people. She will pay you one thousand dollars per month to watch over the homeless people, and plus you get free rent and fee food, and she is a wonderful cook. While you are working for Lisa, you go to college and study. People get college degrees and stuff while they are working for Lisa. And you learn the value of an education.
Of note too, many people who were once homeless make lifetime careers out of helping the homeless after they rise. You can work an easy job at the Wellness Center, and live on the beach, if you have the right college degree.
I know a lady who is a Crisis Intervention Specialist, and that is a great job, and she lives on the beach. She went to school while living in one of Lisa's mansions.
Anyhow, life is hard, but it pays to learn and to study. And you can go from being homeless to living in a nice house on the beach.
I lived in a nice house on the beach by driving a limousine for the official limousine service for the Jay Leno Show, Gemstar Limo. And we had 6 of us living in the house.
Here is the house where I lived in Malibu... It is a nice house, and I loved living there.
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/6315-Gayton-Pl_Malibu_CA_90265_M15737-07387 Life is crazy, you can be homeless one day, and in a mansion the next day, life really is all about peaks and valleys.
Also, you can be a butler for an estate in Malibu, or in Beverly Hills, and they also need valets and door men and landscapers.
And yes Bambu, we have BANKS in the USA, you could be a big banker on Wall Street in New York.
Also, as I posted on the Home thread... A lot of people go out to the desert and live in their RVs and there is a swap meet where they sell stuff to make money while they are there.
The town is Quartzsite, Arizona. People live in their RVs and they make and sell jewelry and whatever else they can sell.
https://blog.goodsam.com/quartzsite-shows/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartzsite,_ArizonaThere is a television show about Quartzsite on PBS. It is like a big hippy commune in the desert. If you are out there homeless in your RV, then you can go check out Quartzsite. And for people who want to live the flower child lifestyle.
During the Great Depression my Grandparents came to California with their families and they picked fruit, and then my Grandmother went to work for the original McDonald's. They were very hard working people. California has vineyards where people can work, and we have orange trees and Sunkist, etc. You can work on a vineyard and you get to live there in the wine country. The workers get to live there right along with the rich people. And they have the United Farm Workers union now, so it is like one big family out there working in the fields.
And I have a nephew who became a captain for yachts, he sails around the world on yachts and they pay him for it. Life can be great. You just never know what kind of crazy ways people can make a living.
And California still has the Entertainment Industry. And there is always Disneyland.
Salute,
Tony V.