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Not to mention re emergence of medieval diseases like Typhoid [1], large and widely spread amount of human feces (which is a biohazard), and lack of housing sup

• undefined3840 7y ago
  Yep. Can’t wear sandals anywhere either for fear of stepping into a used needle and contracting something.
  • shuckles 7y ago
    Counter-point: every fourth person wearing Birkenstocks this weekend.
    • wpasc 7y ago
      Counter-counter-point, of course you'll see people in open footwear but in many busy, populated areas (especially near where people work) such as around market, civic center, soma you'll see needles and feces everywhere. Open toed shoes near those things is probably unadvisable
      • shuckles 7y ago
        That's not a counter-point, it's movement of goalposts.
    • undefined3840 7y ago
      I don’t understand what this proves other than the individual risk tolerance of every fourth person you saw this weekend.
    • et-al 7y ago
      This is also Fleet Week, when you have people coming in from the suburbs and out-of-town who won't be as prepared.
    • cco 7y ago
      I stepped on a piece of metal in FiDi and in my limp to the ER to get it removed I thought long and hard about how much I like wearing sandals and what works have happened if that was a needle. I don't anymore in the city.
• Aperocky 7y ago
  At this point it's strange how the property price in SF haven't been affected by a homeless population almost as large as the housed population. I haven't been to SF anytime recent, but upon visiting New York I found that McDonalds there doesn't have _anything_ within public reach, no fountains, no trays, not even napkins, and I imagine that is totally justified judging by the amount of homeless people residing in/around it. It would be a nightmarish place to live and I'm surprised people would pay so much for properties in these environments.
  • undefined3840 7y ago
    It’s a gold rush town. People put up with a lot when there’s billions to be made.