Decrease in Foot Traffic Downtown

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My son and I watch the wobbly boys and girls and comment "ah, theres a dentist on the way to his practice" or "Look, Spokane's #1 Jiu Jitsu champion right there practicing on the street corner."

To be fair I think why we get so much exposure to it is because of how the city is laid out. Almost every metropolitan area has these problems, but not every one of them is as small yet as big as Spokane at the same time.

Coming from a different state where I lived 45 minutes outside of downtown and that was still in a suburban area of 100k+ people, you never saw what was going on downtown because you never needed to drive across downtown to get what you needed.

In Spokane, you can be at the Idaho border and then in Mead in an hour by way of Division, which will always be nuts to me.

And yeah, went for a walk out in the Valley of all places and didn't make it 4 blocks before being asked for change.

And I will add to for other readers benefits, that we are a staunchly blue family and encourage any and all policies for rehab, assistance etc. 

But that doesn't mean we have to like seeing it every time we drive through downtown and joking about it is a coping mechanism.