What would you do if you became homeless?

[Natural_Born_Cynic]

1) Move to San Francisco,
2) Apply for welfare in San Francisco and live off government benefits on taxpayer's dime.

@Natural_Born_Cynic
Yeah for US-based people, I was also thinking about #1-2 and San Francisco also, because of how much more subsidies I've heard are there are for homeless people (I think there specifically, but I believe also in some other parts of California).

CA is horrible doomed state IMO, and I heard people are leaving it in droves, but paradoxically I've heard it's drawing in more homeless because of the subsidies + comparatively favorable climate in parts (probably especially the Bay Area where it's less scorchingly hot).
I was talking to some people who were down in San Francisco for business a few years ago, and they said it was surreal because they'd be walking along in a very developed area, and suddenly what felt like a small army of homeless men would emerge out of a park walking together in a huge group practically surrounding them as they passed by (fortunately on some other mission than Death Wish-style crime or capturing and roasting business people for food).

God-awful PDX (where I haven't been for quite a while) has apparently also attempted to subsidize homeless people as a poverty relief measure, so that area has also filled with homeless people.
However, the weather intermittently gets terrible in the winter up there, so I don't see why anyone would go there as opposed to the warmer environments.

No comment on the #3+ "side hustle" steps, LOL (though I have heard that too where there was a ludicrous amount of shoplifting because of their loopy legislation that practically encourages and incentivizes it).
However, a legal alternative might actually be dumpster-diving, especially if you can have clean enough clothes to LARP as someone who actually can get away with checking dumpsters in higher-income neighborhoods.
Lots of people with money through away tons of potentially resalable items, including electronics...

The side hustle thing is true. Look up California proposition 47 on shoplifting. Shoplifting is classified as "Misdemeanor" in California. It was enacted back in 2014. And look up youtube videos "California shoplifting and theft"
And also the shop employees can't stop the thief because the store will get sued by the thief when the thief is injured, the store is liable for any injuries either the thief or the employee, and the store has some sort of loss insurance anyway to cover the lost stolen goods. The security guards or the loss prevention officers are just there as "Scarecrows" to scare the thieves but that's not working.

They can call the police, but the police will not likely to respond or arrive in time because the thief got away. In some unlucky instance, if the thief got arrested, the police will give him a slap in the wrist and the prosecutors will not be interested in prosecuting for a misdemeanor. They want to make a big name for themselves for taking felony cases.. not misdemeanors.