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San Francisco has become a really hostile place to live even if you make $300,000+. My wife and I lived in Glen Park and it was still a shit hole. We had a meth

San Francisco has become a really hostile place to live even if you make $300,000+. My wife and I lived in Glen Park and it was still a shit hole. We had a meth head constantly breaking in and living in the parking garage of our building. Cops and landlord didn't care. I regularly saw people shooting heroin and smoking meth/crack on BART during rush hour. I was sick of seeing needles on the street and smelling urine. As soon as the pandemic happened we got the heck out of the Bay Area and relocated somewhere cheaper and nicer. I am sure there are many others doing the same thing. I cannot imagine trying to raise a kid in SF.

ransom1538 4y ago
I with you here. Our neighbor had her apartment violently ransacked while she was at work. This is bad. What makes it evil, they waited for her to return - sitting in the apartment waiting for her to walk in. After the detective interview I had, i realized, I don't want to raise family here anymore. The detective agreed.
- diogenescynic 4y ago
  I didn't even go into the worst of it! I had a bullet come through one of my walls, clearly shot from the walking trail near my building. Cops came out and literally laughed about it and threw the bullet casing into a sandwich bag. Landlord threw some spackling paste over the hole. We literally started packing up the next week. To this day, over 2 years later no one from SFPD has ever contacted me or followed up on the bullet. SFPD is a disgrace. The city is not safe for people. You're just once chance encounter away from something horrible happening to you and when it does, no one will take it seriously or do anything about it.
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thatfrenchguy 4y ago
I'm really curious where you live in Glen Park for this to happen. I've never seen crime there. There's no needles anywhere, and kids everywhere.
- diogenescynic 4y ago
  Near Arlington and Richland. There's a walking trail there along Arlington that attracts a bunch of druggies and creeps. The Richland overpass also has homeless camps near it year round. I think if you live further up the hill, there are fewer issues, but I was close enough to Bernal Heights, the J, 38, and BART, and the community garden--which all brought more riff-raff nearby.
  - thatfrenchguy 4y ago
    Wow, I live maybe two blocks north, closer to the J and the 36, and literally I've never seen a homeless person in my block, there's no car break-ins, and the only "crime" I've seen is someone yelling at their contractor, which promptly got half of the block outside wondering what was going on.

ransom1538 4y ago

I with you here. Our neighbor had her apartment violently ransacked while she was at work. This is bad. What makes it evil, they waited for her to return - sitting in the apartment waiting for her to walk in. After the detective interview I had, i realized, I don't want to raise family here anymore. The detective agreed.

diogenescynic 4y ago
I didn't even go into the worst of it! I had a bullet come through one of my walls, clearly shot from the walking trail near my building. Cops came out and literally laughed about it and threw the bullet casing into a sandwich bag. Landlord threw some spackling paste over the hole. We literally started packing up the next week. To this day, over 2 years later no one from SFPD has ever contacted me or followed up on the bullet. SFPD is a disgrace. The city is not safe for people. You're just once chance encounter away from something horrible happening to you and when it does, no one will take it seriously or do anything about it.

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thatfrenchguy 4y ago

I'm really curious where you live in Glen Park for this to happen. I've never seen crime there. There's no needles anywhere, and kids everywhere.

diogenescynic 4y ago
Near Arlington and Richland. There's a walking trail there along Arlington that attracts a bunch of druggies and creeps. The Richland overpass also has homeless camps near it year round. I think if you live further up the hill, there are fewer issues, but I was close enough to Bernal Heights, the J, 38, and BART, and the community garden--which all brought more riff-raff nearby.
- thatfrenchguy 4y ago
  Wow, I live maybe two blocks north, closer to the J and the 36, and literally I've never seen a homeless person in my block, there's no car break-ins, and the only "crime" I've seen is someone yelling at their contractor, which promptly got half of the block outside wondering what was going on.