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“better place”. Where are you implying?
by testfrequency 4y ago
“better place”. Where are you implying?
- dymk 4y agoThat places better than SF exist and people are moving to them.
- testfrequency 4y agoWhy is everything “better” or “worse”. City vs. City. This is such a lame argument and only feeds whoever is seeking validation that they live in right place
- iinnPP 4y agoBetween myself and ~20 people I know well I have never heard of anyone having their car broken into, nor any packages stolen. This is a medium size Canadian city. I leave my packages outside overnight without issue.
- jimz 4y agoI do the same in Las Vegas, "sin city" moniker and all. I lived in Boston, NYC, LA, Montreal, and Spokane. I had two bikes stolen while I was working at the county public defender's and my girlfriend called the police, filed out a report, and nothing ever came down the line on the other side. The officer tried to talk her out of filing the report. Since I've worked in other jurisdictions and have heard broadly about how few fucks are given about property crimes generally, we don't even know how high or low this figure is in comparison to other cities with different policies. It could very well be true that people are experiencing recency bias, triggered by a question that touches upon something that wasn't taken seriously to begin with. Also, I live in Las Vegas now and I also don't know anyone who had their car broken into or packages stolen. I left my Steam Deck outside for 48 hours since it was delivered early and hidden poorly, but I wasn't looking and didn't even notice it. But since none of the polls - the Chronicle or the Standard's - mention vehicle prowling, we have even less data on that. Why even bring it up? Nobody was expecting Rumble in the Bronx (great movie in spite of the whole movie being made up of stereotypes).
- dpe82 4y agoIt's personal preference but (to pick an example) many other large cities in the US have both lower crime and lower cost of living. For some folks those attributes weigh heavily in the mix of things they think make a city "good". Other people have other preferences. I live in SF, but I absolutely understand why many people think other places are better for them.
- gretch 4y agoI think your take is more outrageous: that things aren’t better or worse than other things? Flint Michigan is really really bad. Their water is poisonous. Similarly, crime is a thing that hurts ppl, in this case theft in SF. How are we gonna sit around and pretend that some cities are not better than others?
- BoorishBears 4y agoI agree to a point. You can't say LA is better than NYC. You can't say London is better than Tokyo. It all depends. But sometimes this is like comparing a little league team to an MLB team: For example, you can say NYC is better than SF. For every axis that SF is better on, NYC is 10x better on 10 others. Like you could argue the foggy weather is better because there's no snow... but then: food, transportation, global importance, crime (even when you account for violent crime specifically), long-term prospects... SF can't even keep a Target open past 8. At the start of the year I moved to SF from NYC, so I'm not validating anything by the way.
- dymk 4y agoWhat argument? You seem to be the only one here looking to pick some pointless fight.
- slt2021 4y agoJust check states/cities where bay area residents are fleeing to, places like austin, dallas, raleigh, NoVa, Seattle, Denver, Miami, etc etc
- ratsmack 4y ago>places like austin Not a lot of difference. https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/austin/crime https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/austin/crime https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ca/san-francisco/crime
- braingenious 4y agoI think the poster is implying that they don’t find San Francisco to be a particularly desirable place to live compared to other places.
- devoutsalsa 4y agoI used to go for walks around my SF apartment in the Tenderloin. To keep myself entertained, I'd count the number of poops I saw on the sidewalk.
- robbrown451 4y agoI live in Bernal Heights. Maybe that's why I haven't seen a human poop on the sidewalk in.... well never, anywhere near me. Probably seen it twice in 20 some years living here, and not anywhere close to here. Were you aware that the Tenderloin is, ya know, what it is, before you got an apartment there? It's been well known as the seediest part of the city for a century or more.
- devoutsalsa 4y agoI knew, yes. I was on a budget at the time. $1550 for a studio with no kitchen was the cheapest thing I could find on short notice that wasn’t too weird. It was a great location, and the was pretty cool, just a little shitty (pun intended).
- braingenious 4y agoThat’s a fun game!
- midislack 4y agoMost cities don't have or need a shit tracker app. Just sayin it's progressive.
- testfrequency 4y agoI’ll be sure to develop a Cartel app for Miami, a Kidnapping app for the state of Texas, and a Homeless app for Denver so you have more content to post in the future
- jjitz 4y agoSF has a homeless population like 5x that of Denver even though the cities are of comparable sizes.
- dpkirchner 4y agoI'd guess Denver's lower rate of homelessness could have something to do with its average overnight temperatures.
- bombcar 4y agoI don’t know what is happening but Boulder has way more homeless than 20 years ago.
- midislack 4y agoYikes do you have apartments or office space for rent or something? LOL
- timcavel 4y ago