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Going to be there next week. Lived there twenty years ago. Haven't spent much time in the city since. All I hear is horror stories. I hope everything is ok? I w

Going to be there next week. Lived there twenty years ago. Haven't spent much time in the city since. All I hear is horror stories. I hope everything is ok? I was going to try to break in my new hiking boots after work each day. Any suggestion on safe places to walk with my pack on? I'm camping in Montana the following week.

itsaidpens 7y ago
You’ll be fine if you’re just visiting. Just don’t move there for any length of time.
- DrScump 7y ago
  Rental cars are frequent targets, so much so that rental car companies remove exterior distinguishing characteristics like labels and license plate frames.
mc32 7y ago
In traditional residential neighborhoods it’s still ok. It’s the tenderloins, SoMA, areas of the mission, etc., that have above average street crime. In the residential neighborhoods it’s petty theft, car break-ins and such. Nothing to worry about, but if you live there it can weigh on you after a while.
- chrisseaton 7y ago
  > it’s petty theft, car break-ins and such. Nothing to worry about Why are people so chilled-out and blasé about having their things taken or damaged? Are you genuinely not bothered about the destruction due to a political belief about property or do you think it's unavoidable? It doesn't happen in most places - it doesn't have to be that way.
  - noirbot 7y ago
    I think they meant that it wouldn't be an issue if you're a visitor and just looking to hike through the area. It's obviously not a good thing, but if I don't live there, I don't have a car to get broken into, so it's not a worry for me to be in that area vs. somewhere where I might get assaulted.
  - asveikau 7y ago
    I grew up on the east coast. My inclination has always been: don't leave valuables in cars, especially not visibly so. Keep your stuff in sight and typically on your person. Here in SF, I often see people leave laptops on tables as they go to coffee shop bathrooms and I think, "wow, that person is crazy". (Even though I have never seen their laptops be stolen.) And it wasn't SF that did that to me. Where are people from that they don't feel they have to be vigilant of opportunistic property crime? I disagree that it doesn't happen everywhere, just that the amount or frequency varies with the place.
    - hhjjkkll 7y ago
      I live by a similar mindset, but I do not think it should be like this. It feels like shit, that I have to think of other humans with such a distrust and fear. I'm very envious of homogenous cultures like Japan where you can leave a bike unlocked outside of a store you're shopping at without it being stolen within 10 minutes.
    - masonic 7y ago
      Blaming the victims is insulting. Cars are broken into without even without any valuables in view. There is a common technique for breaking into Teslas, for example, such that the rear side window is broken to gain immediate access to the trunk release. Teslas get broken into on sheer speculation.
      - asveikau 7y ago
        I was not blaming victims. I am saying people take precautions wherever they live, it is most certainly not just SF as the parent claimed. For you to call that victim blaming is ... Rather insulting. > Cars are broken into without even without any valuables in view I live in San Francisco, you think I don't know this?
hirundo 7y ago
Marin Headlands, right over the Golden Gate. It's beautiful and fabulously underused.
sincerely 7y ago
During the day you will be 100% safe. After like 10PM there are a few places downtown that you maybe don't want to walk around alone but honestly if you can ignore homeless people shouting stuff at you the odds of getting robbed or anything are very low.
adrianN 7y ago
I walked around SF a lot as a visitor and didn't feel in danger. It was a shocking experience to the abject poverty and the homeless shooting heroin right there on a main street. I was only out and about during daylight though.

itsaidpens 7y ago

You’ll be fine if you’re just visiting. Just don’t move there for any length of time.

DrScump 7y ago
Rental cars are frequent targets, so much so that rental car companies remove exterior distinguishing characteristics like labels and license plate frames.

mc32 7y ago

In traditional residential neighborhoods it’s still ok. It’s the tenderloins, SoMA, areas of the mission, etc., that have above average street crime. In the residential neighborhoods it’s petty theft, car break-ins and such. Nothing to worry about, but if you live there it can weigh on you after a while.

chrisseaton 7y ago
> it’s petty theft, car break-ins and such. Nothing to worry about Why are people so chilled-out and blasé about having their things taken or damaged? Are you genuinely not bothered about the destruction due to a political belief about property or do you think it's unavoidable? It doesn't happen in most places - it doesn't have to be that way.
- noirbot 7y ago
  I think they meant that it wouldn't be an issue if you're a visitor and just looking to hike through the area. It's obviously not a good thing, but if I don't live there, I don't have a car to get broken into, so it's not a worry for me to be in that area vs. somewhere where I might get assaulted.
- asveikau 7y ago
  I grew up on the east coast. My inclination has always been: don't leave valuables in cars, especially not visibly so. Keep your stuff in sight and typically on your person. Here in SF, I often see people leave laptops on tables as they go to coffee shop bathrooms and I think, "wow, that person is crazy". (Even though I have never seen their laptops be stolen.) And it wasn't SF that did that to me. Where are people from that they don't feel they have to be vigilant of opportunistic property crime? I disagree that it doesn't happen everywhere, just that the amount or frequency varies with the place.
  - hhjjkkll 7y ago
    I live by a similar mindset, but I do not think it should be like this. It feels like shit, that I have to think of other humans with such a distrust and fear. I'm very envious of homogenous cultures like Japan where you can leave a bike unlocked outside of a store you're shopping at without it being stolen within 10 minutes.
  - masonic 7y ago
    Blaming the victims is insulting. Cars are broken into without even without any valuables in view. There is a common technique for breaking into Teslas, for example, such that the rear side window is broken to gain immediate access to the trunk release. Teslas get broken into on sheer speculation.
    - asveikau 7y ago
      I was not blaming victims. I am saying people take precautions wherever they live, it is most certainly not just SF as the parent claimed. For you to call that victim blaming is ... Rather insulting. > Cars are broken into without even without any valuables in view I live in San Francisco, you think I don't know this?

hirundo 7y ago

Marin Headlands, right over the Golden Gate. It's beautiful and fabulously underused.

sincerely 7y ago

During the day you will be 100% safe. After like 10PM there are a few places downtown that you maybe don't want to walk around alone but honestly if you can ignore homeless people shouting stuff at you the odds of getting robbed or anything are very low.

adrianN 7y ago

I walked around SF a lot as a visitor and didn't feel in danger. It was a shocking experience to the abject poverty and the homeless shooting heroin right there on a main street. I was only out and about during daylight though.