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Not the OP, but while I was living in SF I saw drugs sold on the street, needles left on the ground in public parks, people stealing registration stickers off l
by nitrogen 5y ago
Not the OP, but while I was living in SF I saw drugs sold on the street, needles left on the ground in public parks, people stealing registration stickers off license plates, smashed car windows, people blocking sidewalks and harassing pedestrians, ridiculously unsafe driving (e.g. running reds including cops, ppl cutting across three lanes to make a left from the right lane, etc), guests who visited me were flashed by randos, a dude was jerking into a newspaper box by the BART, neighbors would smoke inside nonsmoking apartments with shared ventilation, etc.
I'd move back again for work if I have to, but it would take a lot of $$$$ to convince me.
- olyjohn 5y agoSounds like parts of just about every big city.
- mc10 5y agoMany of these are absent in New York, including very visible homeless encampments, so no, these are not in “just about every big city”; many of these are specific to West Coast cities due to a failure in public policy.
- ende 5y agoYear round fair weather is a public policy?
- mc10 5y agoNot building enough shelters and allowing NIMBYism at local levels is public policy: https://medium.com/@josefow/new-york-decided-to-end-street-homelessness-and-it-basically-succeeded-ab27f3ec5a65 https://medium.com/@josefow/new-york-decided-to-end-street-h...
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- csmiller 5y agoI have never experienced anything like this living on the east coast (NYC/Boston)
- floren 5y agoGot off BART at Civic Center station at about 11:00 AM last Saturday. Walked past two guy sprawled in a hallway in the station smoking heroin or something from a piece of tin foil, and past another one doing the same as I climbed the stairs to the street. At the top of the stairs were a handful of guys gathered around a stereo smoking weed and, based on what I was seeing, selling it too. A few minutes later, just as I passed the tent city near City Hall, I ran into another guy torching something on a sheet of tin foil. More shit than I've ever seen on any city streets. Every doorway, tree, and wall reeks of piss. It's no way to live.
- Aa9C4xPz43Gg7k6 5y agoAll of what you mentioned is a reason why I only ride 1 station by BART and rest by Caltrain.
- zeruch 5y ago"but while I was living in SF I saw drugs sold on the street, needles left on the ground in public parks, people stealing registration stickers off license plates, smashed car windows, people blocking sidewalks and harassing pedestrians, ridiculously unsafe driving" ...things I've also seen in Chicago, NYC, Miami, Cleveland, Los Angeles, and Portland (among others). Not saying that's ok, just that SF is hardly unique in that regard.