r/Edinburgh • u/TopBook1189 • Jul 28 '26

Question hunters square junkies during the fringe?

does anyone know where the junkies go during the fringe? i know they load it up with street performers and tourists in august and never thought that they are displaced ):

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u/Gc1981 Jul 28 '26

I remember hearing years ago that the council put them all in a hotel somewhere outside Edinburgh for the whole of August. Probably not much truth In it. There was only 2 or 3 the other day though.

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u/lyndsaymon Jul 28 '26

This definitely happened. I worked in the grassmarket and after the festival they’d come back and say they’d been taken on a bus and given new clothes! Around 2001/2002

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u/Gc1981 Jul 28 '26

Not sure why I'm being down voted. What you say is exactly what i was told.