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In SF, there is major organized crime. It’s very obvious. I remember that during my first year in SF, a travel bag was found with a man mutilated inside. I liv

In SF, there is major organized crime. It’s very obvious. I remember that during my first year in SF, a travel bag was found with a man mutilated inside. I live in a cheap studio in the Mission to save on rent. The things I see remind me of my childhood in South America. I just wonder when the kidnappings will start. Also, even professionals have lost all respect for the city. People with a six figure salary urinating on the streets, why?

seattle_spring 7y ago
There are basically zero public restrooms there. If you need to pee, what exactly else are you supposed to do? Tough it out for the 1.5 hours it takes to ride a bus 5 miles back to your apartment?
- DevKoala 7y ago
  Go into a McDonald’s or another restaurant. Are you honestly excusing drunken wealthy people coming out of bars and treating the streets of the Mission like it’s a public urinal?
  - anigbrowl 7y ago
    Kinda, yeah. There used to be more public restrooms (not least in every bart station) but they shut them down after September 11 for 'security reasons' and have never been able to figure the problem out since. Sure, you could hide a bomb in a public toilet, but on the other hand that's probably the least-bad place for an explosion to occur if someone ever decides to do that. If you don't have public toilets, then drunk people are gonna relieve themselves in alleys and the like. That's just a fact of life, not a moral issue.
- inferiorhuman 7y ago
  There are basically zero public restrooms there. If you need to pee, what exactly else are you supposed to do? That's largely true in Spain as well, but nobody shits all over the sidewalks there.
woah 7y ago
It’s really the wild dogs that drove the point home to me. I used to jog on Folsom early in the morning, but after a near run-in with a pack of a half dozen hungry, aggressive dogs (a few chihuahuas, some terrifying pit bulls, and a very angry shiba inu)I have switched to running on a treadmill. SF has gone down hill fast.

seattle_spring 7y ago

There are basically zero public restrooms there. If you need to pee, what exactly else are you supposed to do? Tough it out for the 1.5 hours it takes to ride a bus 5 miles back to your apartment?

DevKoala 7y ago
Go into a McDonald’s or another restaurant. Are you honestly excusing drunken wealthy people coming out of bars and treating the streets of the Mission like it’s a public urinal?
- anigbrowl 7y ago
  Kinda, yeah. There used to be more public restrooms (not least in every bart station) but they shut them down after September 11 for 'security reasons' and have never been able to figure the problem out since. Sure, you could hide a bomb in a public toilet, but on the other hand that's probably the least-bad place for an explosion to occur if someone ever decides to do that. If you don't have public toilets, then drunk people are gonna relieve themselves in alleys and the like. That's just a fact of life, not a moral issue.
inferiorhuman 7y ago
There are basically zero public restrooms there. If you need to pee, what exactly else are you supposed to do? That's largely true in Spain as well, but nobody shits all over the sidewalks there.

woah 7y ago

It’s really the wild dogs that drove the point home to me. I used to jog on Folsom early in the morning, but after a near run-in with a pack of a half dozen hungry, aggressive dogs (a few chihuahuas, some terrifying pit bulls, and a very angry shiba inu)I have switched to running on a treadmill. SF has gone down hill fast.