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It's never been like this. Are you afraid of cities? Sf used to be a nice place to visit.
by cheekibreeki2 3y ago
It's never been like this. Are you afraid of cities? Sf used to be a nice place to visit.
- jimt1234 3y agoI lived in San Francisco for the summer of '92. I couldn't get friends/family to visit from Modesto; everyone said basically the same thing as today: too expensive (even to visit), too much crime, too many "crazy people" (90s for "homeless"), and so on. I honestly don't think San Francisco is any worse than it was 30 years ago; I just think perceptions and narratives have changed.
- verteu 3y agoUnsheltered homeless count is up 65% since 2005 [1], and property crime has doubled since 2009 [2]. So there's a reason people think SF is going downhill. A 1991 paper [3] estimates homelessness at 535.1/100,000, about half the current rate [4]. [1] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population [2] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rate-and-property-crime-rate https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rat... [3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1749371/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1749371/ [4] https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francisco-problems/sf-homelessness-data https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francis...
- snypher 3y agoHumans are great at short term trends and terrible at long term numbers I guess. Edit; three months ago the weather was so much cooler, at this rate it will be 150F on Xmas!
- more_corn 3y agoYou obviously haven’t been recently. Go check it out. I’ll accept your apology when you return.
- inferiorhuman 3y agoSo there's a reason people think SF is going downhill. Something to do with using scarce housing stock for short-term rentals instead of housing residents I assume.
- yuppie_scum 3y agoBut that doesn’t make it “good.”