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I’ve had several meetings, either in Twitter office or around it, and the street scene is very bad in that part of SF. If the claim is that this is a motivation
by seizethecheese 2y ago
I’ve had several meetings, either in Twitter office or around it, and the street scene is very bad in that part of SF. If the claim is that this is a motivation for the move, it certainly passes the sniff test for me.
- JS-Sound 2y ago[flagged]
- bastardoperator 2y agoSo you've been able to gauge life and the street scene in SF based on several meetings? That's super interesting. I would argue the Embarcadero is fairly nice and I live here, but what do I know.
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- janalsncm 2y agoI visited Fisherman’s Wharf last year after dark and it was pretty poorly lit and not that clean. Maybe for a company where employees are expected be “extremely hardcore” (i.e. long hours) that is a consideration. (Although if you’re truly hardcore you don’t care what the street looks like, you sleep under your desk.)
- er4hn 2y agoThis is disingenuous. Twitter is located in Civic Center, which is a different neighborhood. From the ferry building at the Embarcadero to Twitter HQ is about 1.8 miles away, or 3 BART stops. Given the density of SF and how quickly spaces can change you cannot realistically compare the two.
- snapcaster 2y agoOnly visited for a few days for a conference, but I think if you live there you may have become desensitized to the situation. It's really really not normal to have all the stores boarded up and security guards at the entrance. It's really not normal to be outnumbered by fent addicts nodding off on the street. The worst vibes of any city i've ever been to in my life (Including many people would describe as shitholes). This is so messed up to everyone who hasn't been beaten into acceptance of it
- fallingknife 2y agoI don't know what you know, but one thing you apparently don't know is that Twitter HQ is nowhere near the Embarcadero.
- renewiltord 2y agoMy wife and I have lived in SF for over a decade and I go to the Fitness SF next door to this building at least twice a week these days. We can all play this game where we try to pretend that this area is really nice to people not from here. But what that guy said was "the street scene is very bad in that part of SF." and he's dead right. I love this city, but misleading people on the Internet is not right. Tell them the truth. I've lived here as long as I have because I think the benefits outweigh the pains. But not because there are no pains.
- lucidone 2y agoI am nobody important living in rural middle of nowhere, but visited SF twice for work, and it was the most horrific city I have ever been to. I am a big man and didn't feel very safe.
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- arethuza 2y agoAbout 20 years ago I was visiting SF for work and, in a moment of weakness, let someone else book me a hotel - they booked me into a rather rough hotel on Geary. When I got into a taxi at the airport the driver said "Do you really want to go there?".
- cdelsolar 2y agolol
- smsm42 2y agoSF has had some cleaner parts - including north parts of Embarcadero, Presidio, etc. but the center and Market St. areas can be pretty scary to a person who's not used to it. As a large ugly dude, I didn't really feel _that_ threatened there, even if a bit uneasy, but I can only imagine how, for example, a woman would feel navigating it, especially at later hours...
- sneak 2y agoStatistically speaking, women are almost never physically attacked by strangers, it is almost always someone they know. Men are attacked by strangers at a much much higher rate than women are.
- sharpshadow 2y agoI would also say woman fear strangers much more than somebody they know. Maybe what’s the reason they can avoid getting physically attacked by strangers better than men.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoI'm not sure what your point is to be honest, are you saying women are safe in that area at that time of night because of global statistics?
- Dylan16807 2y ago"I didn't feel that threatened, but I can only imagine how X group would feel" doesn't make much sense if X group is actually at a lower risk. I don't know if they're right at all, but the point seems pretty clear. And they're not saying anyone is safe.
- janalsncm 2y agoThat’s fair, I never visited the office. But if that was the only issue maybe they’d consider a different part of SF, which would be easier for current employees.
- gunapologist99 2y ago... a literal sniff test? from what I hear (not having been there in more than a few years), it's become quite a problem.
- Diederich 2y agoI rode by their office in SF daily in 2015-2018 and even back then it was pretty rough. I've heard things have gotten only more difficult since.
- tayo42 2y agoI interviewed there around then, I remeber getting off at civic center bart station on my way in wondering to my self if I really want to do this commute everyday and what kind if effect it would have on me. Then I got the offer and was like, I'll figure it out hah. Sketchy mornings watching all the drug dealing happening hoping I wouldn't accidently look at the wrong person the wrong way or something.
- hamandcheese 2y agoIsn't van ness station closer to Twitter?
- SllX 2y agoIf he was going via BART, Van Ness doesn’t have a BART station. If he was going via MUNI, technically yes but not by a lot.
- hamandcheese 2y agoOh wow, my bad. I thought there was a BART station down there. (I used to be a regular muni rider, not a regular bart rider).
- SllX 2y agoIt is an easy mistake to make because Van Ness is a strange station to have been built. It’s past the point where the BART tracks turn towards Mission and is close enough to Civic Center to seem redundant; but I guess a ton of civic buildings are directly on Van Ness and it is a major North-South transit corridor.
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- devoutsalsa 2y agoI used live in the Tenderloin and work in the Twitter building. My walk to work required me to be mindful of both stationary and recently minted poop in transit. This was in 2019.
- roberto2016 2y agoI used to live in the Tenderloin in late 90's early 00's. Nice affordable studio on Turk. There was always a diverse party going on during the day on the streets. Definitely had an old fashion skid-row vibe. Market street wasn't too bad then. Ah the memories.
- diogenescynic 2y agoIt's exponentially worse now with fentanyl and meth plus now there are now social repercussions or consequences and you can steal to fund your habit with no consequences. It's a sick sad society that would allow this and not see it as an injustice to man. To not intervene is bad enough, but SF actively enables this crap by giving out cash (adult assistance program) and needles (without requiring them to turn in dirty needles). But the voters get what they vote for.. so I guess they want this. This is what it looks like now on 6th/7th and Market: https://www.instagram.com/p/C-RuONoqOeP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== https://www.instagram.com/p/C-RuONoqOeP/?utm_source=ig_web_c... it's always been bad, but this is insane. I took BART to Civic Center for concerts and bars many many nights and it was never like this until the pandemic. I blame all city leaders, voters, and SFPD for allowing this to continue unabated.
- snotrockets 2y agoThat was also true in mission bay, is true in Lakeshore, and I assume other neighborhoods too. It shouldn’t be like that, but those are the priorities we (as society and electorate) decided on.
- highcountess 2y agoThat is a quite ironic statement considering that Twitter has been an integral part of modern social engineering to reprogram people into accepting and tolerating the intolerable and unacceptable. So here we are, at a point where people not only self-censor, they will even get violently aggressive or simply will suppress speech or even the ability to read or hear what someone has said if it diverges from the cult rules that have been imposed on our whole civilization.
- darby_nine 2y agoI'd far prefer to live in the tenderloin than south bay. People make it out to be far scarier than it is.
- drawnwren 2y agoI’d be willing to be good money you couldn’t take the bus out of the old X headquarters at 11pm for a month straight and not get robbed at least once. I got robbed twice in the 3 months I worked in the TL.
- darby_nine 2y ago[flagged]
- drawnwren 2y agoYou know an area is fucked when people start trying to blame the victims for the crime.
- qingcharles 2y agohttps://knowyourmeme.com/memes/getting-mugged-just-say-no https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/getting-mugged-just-say-no
- darby_nine 2y agoI'm not blaming them for the crime, just their lack of understanding how the world works. If you want to understand poverty in america the only place to look is capital and americans' commitment to individual material comfort over all other values.
- yurwrng 2y agoBoth Australia and Singapore are very individualistic, capitalistic and materialistic, and yet you don't get robbed constantly.
- flanked-evergl 2y agoWhy do the citizens of SF like living in such squalor?
- s1artibartfast 2y agoThe obvious answer is they don't, and it is a tough problem to fix
- flanked-evergl 2y agoThe way I see it, the main way in which the citizens of SF can fix it is by voting for something different, but they don't. So it certainly does seem like they find the status quo preferable to alternatives.
- pokot0 2y agoBefore you jump to that conclusion you have to be sure that: - such politician exist (politician is not where we humans shine) - you believe the ones who claim they will fix it - the one that you believe can fix it don’t come with values that you cannot accept (extreme example: “I’ll kill all homeless people. vote me!”
- flanked-evergl 2y agoGiven there are/were cities that are not in such decline and such a state, including SF itself, it definitely seems like there are politicians that can fix it. The values conflict may be relevant. If, for example, you think it's critical to allow and facilitate your fellow man to become total enslavement to drugs that destroy their lives and health and eventually kill them, then I can get that you won't want to do anything to stop it, even if you have to live in squalor for that to be the case.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoThey might be wrong, but that doesnt mean they like living in squalor. Even if your solution is 100% workable, your statement is like saying a man must really like drowning because they dont know how to swim. I guess I dont think it isn't very constructive.