How Are Things Going For You? (See below)
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My hobby is keeping my neighbourhood tidy; litter, fallen branches, maybe light landscaping. I live in a slum where the landlords care more about impressing investors than the livability of their buildings, but I've got a lot of good neighbours so I do what I can.
In the last year, due to the consequences of certain totally predictible actions by the city, we've had a ton of homeless people hanging around. Most people do their best to avoid them and let them do whatever they like, which has led to them setting up camps beside the local school.
I've expanded to my hobby to liquidating these camps. The no-homos who "live" there wake up one day, wander off to score drugs, and return to find everything they own in the world gone, from tents, carts, and furniture right on down to their improvised bongs, crack pipes, and firewood.
Most recently I caught one of them having a fire behind my neighbour's building. Me personally, I love fires and have no problem so long as they take care of it, so I had a chat with him and told him to make sure to clean up when finished. He agreed.
Well, more fool me, the next day the area was full of empties, a broken down bed frame that they were burning, and an obvious attempt to burn a log much bigger than the fire pit. So I cleared it, including two suitcases full of clothes.
Haven't seen hide nor hair of him since, and it feels like the general population of them is also staying out of sight, though that could be the weather getting colder.
While the whole situation is a literal dumpster fire, there something satisfying about walking through the neighbourbood knowing how much worse it would be if I had tolerated these people making it worse.