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Having lived in SF for about a year now, it's actually quite a clean, beautiful, and safe city IF you just stay away from a big chunk of the center. My wife and
by danenania 8y ago
Having lived in SF for about a year now, it's actually quite a clean, beautiful, and safe city IF you just stay away from a big chunk of the center. My wife and I pretty much try to avoid it at all costs now, which is sad because there's a lot of good stuff there (architecture, theatre, restaurants, the tech scene, public transit arteries, etc.) but there are also plenty of interesting and beautiful neighborhoods to explore that don't have any of these problems, so we still enjoy living here a lot for the most part. It's a utopia and dystopia all wrapped up into one.
- maxaf 8y agoSo, SF is not a clean, beautiful, and safe city, considering that the part of it with all the interesting stuff also happens to be drowning in a putrid combination of feces and needles. It's just like saying that Earth is a lovely place, as long as you avoid breathing the atmosphere and drinking any of the water. Look at the forests! Hope your spacesuit's faceplate doesn't become pitted by the acid rain.
- danenania 8y agoMy point is that all the interesting stuff is not in the center. There is some interesting stuff there, but there's just as much (if not more) interesting stuff and urban/natural beauty in other less central neighborhoods like Richmond, Sunset, Pac Heights, NoPa, Castro, North Beach, Mission-Bernal, Noe Valley, Lower Haight, and a bunch more. All of those neighborhoods are safe, walkable, have plenty of things to do, and compare well on just about every dimension to any neighborhood in any big city in the world. So while the drug and homelessness problems radiating out from SoMa/Tenderloin are very serious and not to be diminished, trying to paint the whole city as a cesspool just indicates that you haven't seen much of it.
- thrax 8y agoShhh!