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This is not concentrated in only downtown, break ins and store robberies are happening across the entire city. I was there in March and market square and Union

This is not concentrated in only downtown, break ins and store robberies are happening across the entire city. I was there in March and market square and Union square were like something out of a mad max film. My friend who lives in the Marina of all places just left the city for good and had his car broken into multiple times as well as was hit by a car with a driver who was high on drugs. My brother visited golden gate park to ride his bike and when he got back his roof rack was broken by vandals trying to steal it(in broad daylight!). The mission and SOMA are also dangerous and I think really only the sunset is somewhat normal although thieves still target porch packages and break into cars there. I can't vouch for mission bay or Hayes valley so maybe not all parts are terrible but the good areas are not as safe as they used to be.

TMWNN 3y ago
>I was there in March and market square and Union square were like something out of a mad max film. From a May 2023 article on the decline of the city <http://web.archive.org/web/20230510153958/https://www.curbed.com/2023/05/san-francisco-doom-loop.html http://web.archive.org/web/20230510153958/https://www.curbed...>: >A note to my fellow San Franciscians: I’m sorry. I know. There’s always some story in the East Coast press about how our city is dying. San Franciscians hate—HATE—these pieces. You’re a stooge and a traitor for writing one. When I set out reporting, I wanted to write a debunking-the-doom piece myself. Yet to live in San Francisco right now, to watch its streets, is to realize that no one will catch you if you fall. In the first three months of 2023, 200 San Franciscans OD’d, up 41 percent from last year.“It’s like a wasteland,” the guard said when I asked how San Francisco looked to him. “It’s like the only way to describe it. It’s like a video game — like made-up shit. Have you ever played Fallout?” >I shook my head. >“There’s this thing in the game called feral ghouls, and they’re like rotted. They’re like zombies.” There’s only so much pain a person can take before you disintegrate, grow paranoid, or turn numb. “I go home and play with my wife, and we’re like, ‘Ah, hahahaha, this is SF.’”

TMWNN 3y ago

>I was there in March and market square and Union square were like something out of a mad max film. From a May 2023 article on the decline of the city <http://web.archive.org/web/20230510153958/https://www.curbed.com/2023/05/san-francisco-doom-loop.html http://web.archive.org/web/20230510153958/https://www.curbed...>: >A note to my fellow San Franciscians: I’m sorry. I know. There’s always some story in the East Coast press about how our city is dying. San Franciscians hate—HATE—these pieces. You’re a stooge and a traitor for writing one. When I set out reporting, I wanted to write a debunking-the-doom piece myself. Yet to live in San Francisco right now, to watch its streets, is to realize that no one will catch you if you fall. In the first three months of 2023, 200 San Franciscans OD’d, up 41 percent from last year.“It’s like a wasteland,” the guard said when I asked how San Francisco looked to him. “It’s like the only way to describe it. It’s like a video game — like made-up shit. Have you ever played Fallout?” >I shook my head. >“There’s this thing in the game called feral ghouls, and they’re like rotted. They’re like zombies.” There’s only so much pain a person can take before you disintegrate, grow paranoid, or turn numb. “I go home and play with my wife, and we’re like, ‘Ah, hahahaha, this is SF.’”