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Poop on streets is very common in San Francisco. Most of the bay area doesn't have that problem, though. Map: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid

Poop on streets is very common in San Francisco. Most of the bay area doesn't have that problem, though. Map: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab720912642b6aedafdb02a76d2a4 https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=b6fab72091...

libria 5y ago
Is this animal poop or human specifically?
- storyinmemo 5y ago
  Honestly it's a game to identify which. Accidentally left my garage in an 8 unit apartment building open once. Had to clean up the poop 15 minutes later. Human, if you're wondering still.
- gjsman-1000 5y ago
  Human
  - renewiltord 5y ago
    There is actually very little evidence for this. It is likely that it is mostly dog poop. EDIT: the comments in response are non-sequiturs. The map does not display mostly human poop. It is mostly dog poop. I know I know, you see people poop all the time. But that’s not what the map is.
    - dehrmann 5y ago
      I've literally seen someone defecating on the street in the TL. But that's the TL. Elsewhere, yes, it's probably dog.
    - lordnacho 5y ago
      I was there for 4 days in 2019 and I saw someone poop right in front of me. A number of other social issues were apparent as well.
    - yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
      Oh yeah, the Bay Area is actually paradise. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUtyW4FRn78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUtyW4FRn78 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPuMceGWtOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPuMceGWtOQ
    - hadlock 5y ago
      Market south to Bryant, and 10th st north to the waterfront (i.e. SOMA) is a pretty prolific area, I frequently see the city deploying porta-potties to keep it under control due to the campsites that pop up. Also yeah Tenderloin, Lower Nob Hill, Design District, civic center, pretty much that whole "fertile" crescent. It's no surprise that the city gave twitter huge incentives to put their headquarters in between civic center and central soma. I walk my kid to and from daycare in that area and see street pooping if not every week, three times a month. There's a reason why people move away from the city when they have kids. We are not far off from doing the same after almost seven otherwise very enjoyable years here. I've "only" seen two discarded needles on the street the entire time I've been here though, one was outside of a major grocery store just before Thanksgiving. The rest of the peninsula is pretty vanilla and mundane though. As are the parts of the city not an hour's walking distance from market street. It was very interesting visiting manhattan though, I'm not sure where everyone there goes, but their SOMA-style areas seemed overall cleaner than ours, which leads me to believe it's partly a city management issue.
    - hamburglar 5y ago
      Regardless of what the map is about, the statement "poop on the streets is very common in San Francisco" is both about human and dog poop. The frequency with which people encounter human poop on the sidewalk in SF is very, very abnormal, even if dog poop is more frequent. One of my best friends owns a house on a street which is not a bad part of town by any means (both sides of the street are lined with immaculately-kept victorians that zillow thinks are worth $3+ million) and he has to clean human poop off of his own sidewalk about once a month.
- dehrmann 5y ago
  Both.
tshaddox 5y ago
Even in San Francisco it’s mostly in a small geographic area, although it does happen to overlap closely with high foot traffic shopping and tourist areas.
plorkyeran 5y ago
Most of _San Francisco_ doesn't have that problem. One of the really weird parts about SF is that the worst part of town is right next to the tourist area, and all the tech companies congregated in the area that had really cheap office space because no established companies would touch the area.

libria 5y ago

Is this animal poop or human specifically?

storyinmemo 5y ago
Honestly it's a game to identify which. Accidentally left my garage in an 8 unit apartment building open once. Had to clean up the poop 15 minutes later. Human, if you're wondering still.
gjsman-1000 5y ago
Human
- renewiltord 5y ago
  There is actually very little evidence for this. It is likely that it is mostly dog poop. EDIT: the comments in response are non-sequiturs. The map does not display mostly human poop. It is mostly dog poop. I know I know, you see people poop all the time. But that’s not what the map is.
  - dehrmann 5y ago
    I've literally seen someone defecating on the street in the TL. But that's the TL. Elsewhere, yes, it's probably dog.
  - lordnacho 5y ago
    I was there for 4 days in 2019 and I saw someone poop right in front of me. A number of other social issues were apparent as well.
  - yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
    Oh yeah, the Bay Area is actually paradise. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gT5NULvRSk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUtyW4FRn78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUtyW4FRn78 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPuMceGWtOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPuMceGWtOQ
  - hadlock 5y ago
    Market south to Bryant, and 10th st north to the waterfront (i.e. SOMA) is a pretty prolific area, I frequently see the city deploying porta-potties to keep it under control due to the campsites that pop up. Also yeah Tenderloin, Lower Nob Hill, Design District, civic center, pretty much that whole "fertile" crescent. It's no surprise that the city gave twitter huge incentives to put their headquarters in between civic center and central soma. I walk my kid to and from daycare in that area and see street pooping if not every week, three times a month. There's a reason why people move away from the city when they have kids. We are not far off from doing the same after almost seven otherwise very enjoyable years here. I've "only" seen two discarded needles on the street the entire time I've been here though, one was outside of a major grocery store just before Thanksgiving. The rest of the peninsula is pretty vanilla and mundane though. As are the parts of the city not an hour's walking distance from market street. It was very interesting visiting manhattan though, I'm not sure where everyone there goes, but their SOMA-style areas seemed overall cleaner than ours, which leads me to believe it's partly a city management issue.
  - hamburglar 5y ago
    Regardless of what the map is about, the statement "poop on the streets is very common in San Francisco" is both about human and dog poop. The frequency with which people encounter human poop on the sidewalk in SF is very, very abnormal, even if dog poop is more frequent. One of my best friends owns a house on a street which is not a bad part of town by any means (both sides of the street are lined with immaculately-kept victorians that zillow thinks are worth $3+ million) and he has to clean human poop off of his own sidewalk about once a month.
dehrmann 5y ago
Both.

tshaddox 5y ago

Even in San Francisco it’s mostly in a small geographic area, although it does happen to overlap closely with high foot traffic shopping and tourist areas.

plorkyeran 5y ago

Most of _San Francisco_ doesn't have that problem. One of the really weird parts about SF is that the worst part of town is right next to the tourist area, and all the tech companies congregated in the area that had really cheap office space because no established companies would touch the area.