It's so peaceful here at this new dropin!

 The staff are super helpful with resources and help accessing them, the women staying here just all sit around on their devices or having coffee and the ones that want to socialize go outside, and there's space to walk around. The shower room is single occupancy and is a huge room the size of most apartment living rooms and has a toilet and sink in with it in another section and lots of benches and counters to put your stuff on and a mirror. Like the other place, there's coffee all day and 3 meals and snacks and wifi and showers and a laundry room. This place gives you a mat to sleep on and maybe 10 people are sleeping in a big room the size of a small gymnasium whereas at the other place you just had the floor (which nevertheless they cleaned twice every 24 hours, like they do here) and there was a lot less space to sleep at the other place and people fought over spots. At the other place people were sleeping under tables, scrunched up in corners with no space to lay full length or even curl up, sitting up at tables or on chairs, people fought with others who were sleeping in front of others' storage bins, etc. 

There's no triangulation here and I'm not against chatting about anything a person wants obviously (hopegully obviously) but to me, the quiet here feels safe for me because no triangulation is happening within the building and therefore no physical fights are happening. As long as I go outside only in the daytime, nothing will happen outside either, and no one knows me here so that decreases any likelihood of any drama. At the other place it reminded me kind of of a combination of the first secondary school I went to (in Montreal in 7th and 8th grades). At that school I talked to half my grade but was friends with no one. Also at that school, I couldn't trust anyone because even the nice ones were treated nice by the bullies so they might not have known the true nature of some of the bullies. At the second high school I went to in Montreal, in grades 9 and 10, that was more the "physical fights" kind of school. The first school was a private Catholic girls' school with entrance exams, the "smart" people's school, and physically safer and expelled you for any physical crap, but ooooh the repressed anger and thus the gossip. The second school was suburban but everyone there wanted so bad the be inner-city that they made it that way. That's where that comes in. It was like the worst of both worlds.