Are there beggars in America/England?

There are quite a few, but I don’t know if they’re fraudulent or not.

Yes and yes. Never children on their own. Probably not as many as in Pakistan.

Yes, in America, they usually live under bridges and beg to passing cars. They usually have cardboard signs that say, “Lost job: please help” etc. etc.

Every city in America, though where I’ve lived a lot of them are healthy enough to get and hold a job if they tried. I give money to those who appear like they are too old/too infirm to get a job

Yes there are. They are almost always young men, not kids or old people.

In my experience beggars are a lot more common in the US than in Britain. American beggars are a lot more friendly and polite than British ones.

Definitely and there are also fraudulent ones as well the that have house’s and money, that pretend they’re homeless to make some. Frauds more like People With No Pride.

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Every country has homeless and every country has frauds.

There are some in the UK, but they’re mostly in very large cities – London and Birmingham. Most beggars are genuinely homeless people – you see them in all cities, especially since government funding to homeless shelters has been decreased.

There are some ‘fraudulent’ beggars who use children, and they often make a lot of money – up to £5 a day. Of course, almost every penny is stolen from the children and goes to their ‘minders’ leaving the children starving – for the genuine look. It’s sickening.

Yes. They’re a lot of them. The only difference is that they’re exclusively older male.

You see them all over London – in tube stations, on Oxford Street and other major shopping streets, etc. Many of them are homeless, mentally ill or drug addicts or immigrants from other countries. There are even child beggars who are used by their parents or criminal gangs to beg for money – the BBC did a whole programme about it
http://www.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_p…

Yes, beggars occur in both countries, although to varying extents, and localities, and for possibly many different reasons!
Pakistan has a completely different economical and social environment than the U.S. or U.K. has, however we are heading in your direction rather rapidly in many ways.
Edit:
Some of the other answers helped to remind me of a couple of things.
I used to simply give whatever pocket change that I had to someone begging on the street thinking that I could help someone who had far less than I had, and yet became more skeptical after seeing some documentary on the news about beggars who were making a better living than me by being simple fraudsters which gave me some concern.
Shortly after that story, I was in Seattle in 1986 to get my passport as I needed it to go abroad for a new job offer and I had several hours to kill before returning for my passport.
As I left the Federal Building, I met a beggar who was 30 years older than me and was saying that he hadn’t eaten for days(and by his appearance it was believable) I gave him the option of me either walking away and giving him nothing, or letting me buy him a breakfast at a nearby coffee shop (which at that time would only cost me a couple of dollars) which he accepted!
We talked for an hour and he gave me his life story, and gave me a hand written poem and the contact details for his wife to contact, which I failed to do, as my life was also in turmoil at the time!
This man had a very sad story to be told and unfortunately all I could offer him was a promise which I was incapable of living up to.
Although most of us will never wind up in a similar situation, some of us may!
Life doesn’t have to be fair, and actually seldom is!

There are beggars in England, though not many. You often find them on high streets in towns and cities.
Yes, quite a lot of them are frauds. I personally once gave someone a pound coin only to see them a quarter of an hour later climbing into a Mercedes.

There are indeed but they’re not exactly common.

The last time I gave a beggar money, he asked and asked again for it. So I caved in and handed him some money just out of common human decency. What did he do? He just took it and walked off without even saying thanks or showing any recognition whatsoever, like he’d got what he wanted and I wasn’t even worth the breath from that moment on.. money I’d spent my time earning while he does nothing and can’t even show a bit of recognition for a completely one-sided trade where I lose and he benefits.

I was so disgusted by this incredibly ungrateful and disrespectful behaviour that I have developed a strong caution when it comes to beggars. If I was a lesser man I would have followed him and taken my money back by force if necessary. However, I reasoned that such a thing was simply not worth the risk of it escalating into a legal matter, despite my urge to do so.

The UK has a well-established welfare system. This dramatically reduces this kind of thing, but you still get the odd stray who for whatever reason, has chosen not to use it (or has been refused it perhaps).

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London, England

Increasingly in THE UK NOT ENGLAND! -.- Due to our government not caring for anyone

yes we have a fancy name for beggars in USA it’s called Homeless

There was a story recently about a Romanian woman in either the UK or the U.S pretending to have some kind of disability and going round begging. In major towns there are the homeless who have places where money can be collected. There are very few though. My local one is a woman who chooses to be homeless because her house was burnt down in a fire, she doesn’t ‘beg’ per say though.