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I saw plenty of homeless and deranged people every time I went to Berlin. One woman actually lived in a tent in front of a police station in Pankow (for safety)
by V-2 9y ago
I saw plenty of homeless and deranged people every time I went to Berlin. One woman actually lived in a tent in front of a police station in Pankow (for safety).
- piva00 9y agoMe too, I go to Berlin about once or twice a month, there are homeless and deranged people around but NEVER anything like what I saw in SF. One day when going to the Van Ness' Muni station I saw a couple of homeless people, they had syringes hanging from their arms, right before I reached the turnstiles. I never saw so many deranged people on the streets, screaming as loud as one possibly can as I've seen in San Francisco. So yes, Berlin has the same problems but I think they are on very different scales.
- V-2 9y agoAdmittedly I've never been to Frisco, but when I visited New York (back in 2003 I believe), I haven't encountered anything what I - being from Europe - would perceive as out of the ordinary in this aspect. I have no such recollection at least. Obviously I may not have gone to the right places; or other locally specific factors could be at play, such as some homeless-hostile regulations. For this reason though I'd be sceptical of broad explanations such as "that's because the core values of your society are so and so". Ironically, it's no other than San Francisco that is reputed to be (culturally) the most European city in the US...