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> The solution is pretty simple, don't go to downtown. The city is what, 5 miles by 5 miles? This isn't LA where you just skip the bad parts your whole life.
by gedy 3y ago
> The solution is pretty simple, don't go to downtown.
The city is what, 5 miles by 5 miles? This isn't LA where you just skip the bad parts your whole life.
- pb7 3y agoIt’s 7x7 and as it turns out, you can fit a lot of stuff if you don’t have highways and parking lots everywhere. A wild concept for Texans for whom the other opposite sidewalk may be a 6 minute drive away.
- wyclif 3y agoOr just no sidewalks. A company flew me to Dallas for a conference. Me and a colleague saw that the restaurant we wanted to go to was one block away, so no point in taking a taxi. Staff at the front desk looked at us like we were crazy. We found out why once we left the hotel: we had to walk on landscaping to get there, no pavement that wasn't road and absolutely nobody else out walking anywhere that could be seen.
- microtherion 3y agoSame happened to me when I interviewed in Austin. Had to walk through high grass on the median to get to a restaurant in the evening. Afterwards, someone told you that there occasionally were rattlesnakes living in the same grass…
- plorkyeran 3y agoThe bad part of SF is about one square mile out of 49.