For years our town had a total of one beggar. But Janelle is a special beggar, Janelle will come right up to your door and ask for money. Once she'd exhausted that avenue then she would stand in front of the local stores/gas station/restaurants...then finally this summer the businesses had enough. The main problem is that we have started getting a lot more business from tourists because of the wine trail which has become quite extensive over the past few years and our town is actually the largest along it without going out of your way. So loitering, pestering, begging Janelle was affecting business and they couldn't have that. So they all got together and banned her.
I heard that she moved to Geneva which is a much bigger place so she might have more luck.
A total of one beggar? That's actually not bad. How were they able to ban her? It would've been better if they educated her and put her to work instead, no?
Oh, many people tried to help her in constructive ways, unfortunately she was just the type to prefer begging and being a general pest. Basically the businesses wouldn't allow her in and she had no reason to stay around after that.
It's a very small town. The bigger cities around us have a lot more begging but I just don't come in contact with it that often.
Oh yeah, I know those types well. Here, there are a lot of impoverished people who are given welfare housing at a good looking location. But, because it's far from where they want to be, they decided to just rent out the free housing they were given to go back to the squatter's area that they were asked to clear out. Sometimes people are illogical.