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As a foreigner from Europe (Spain) living in Japan who just visited SF for a couple of weeks it's amazingly disgusting... I've seen people pooping in broad dayl
by franciscop 8y ago
As a foreigner from Europe (Spain) living in Japan who just visited SF for a couple of weeks it's amazingly disgusting... I've seen people pooping in broad daylight near Market Street twice, many times peeing, and in some touristic areas I've had to literally jump over homeless people to keep going.
True it's not "ankle deep in poop", but if that's the bar where we are comparing it with then there's something truly amiss in a 1-st world city/country.
- fiblye 8y agoFurthermore, one of the absolute richest cities in the wealthiest country on earth. A lot of these solutions just involve pumping money through injection sites, programs, etc. I think it’s something no amount of money will fix. Something needs to be done about a culture that not only accepts this as normal, but is trying to find ways to make it acceptable and easier to do in hopes that they’ll stop. There’s a reason other counties bus people into SF: it’s because they know people in SF will put up with it. There will be a constant flow of new people who don’t care about ruining a city.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>There’s a reason other counties bus people into SF: it’s because they know people in SF will put up with it. There will be a constant flow of new people who don’t care about ruining a city. There's some serious cognitive dissonance here. The people who start in CA and end in Denver, Portland or Austin might not be shitting on the streets themselves but they fight tooth and nail for the kind of public policy that has led cities like SF and SD into their current pediment. They're shitting on the streets by proxy.