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Every city has an area you don't go to. Sfs just happens to be right in the middle and next to the major tourist areas and down town. The rest of city is nothin
by tayo42 2y ago
Every city has an area you don't go to. Sfs just happens to be right in the middle and next to the major tourist areas and down town. The rest of city is nothing like the tenderloin.
- trilbyglens 2y agoCompletely false statement, unless you are only taking about american cities.
- tayo42 2y agoMaybe, in countries with social services.overall I think it's a mistake to think of handling the homeless, mental illness, and lack of opportunities like this on a city by city basis. It's more a reflection of America, the federal government needs to step in an help these people. Like why should each individual city help homeless veterans and not the government of the entire country that they served in.
- trilbyglens 2y agoCompletely agree. I live in Europe and my City is safe enough to sleep overnight in a park on a bench without being touched. In fact, last night I accidentally left my car keys in the ignition and my car was still there in the morning. Lol. So yeah, the idea that every city has bad parts is a pretty American notion. In fact, that's one of the commonly asked questions about people visiting my city as in where should they avoid and they have a hard time believing that there's not actually any area to avoid.
- collingreen 2y agoThis is absolutely true. It also doesn't mean we don't care, don't work on it, or don't want it to change. People are told to hate sf more often than most other US cities plus it's very geographically small plus everything you said makes it easy to paint a nasty picture.
- tayo42 2y agoYeah I get for visitors it looks bad but I think everyone needs to be realistic about how much can change. The tenderloin is the way it is becasue of the services it provides to homeless and drug users. If you got rid of the services the people dissappear. But I think that would be a pretty bad thing to do. And you can't move the other districts really either.
- marcusb 2y agoThere is not any part of the city where I live where you can readily observe people injecting IV drugs in broad daylight in full view of the police, or who are so high they don’t notice, or don’t care, they are exposing themselves near a daycare[0]. Those things are not normal and are not widely occurring features of most American cities, even the “areas you don’t go to.” In fact, in all my travels, I’ve seen those things in one American city: San Francisco. 0 - to head off the inevitable gaslighting that always comes up when discussing this, these are things I saw live, in person, with my own eyes.
- c22 2y agoI haven't been to either place in quite a while, but--by my recollection--if you want to give SF a run for its money you should go cruise around Baltimore for a minute.
- arp242 2y agoI've lived in a bunch of different cities in a bunch of different countries, and none of them have area(s) you "don't go to". There are some rougher areas, sure, but it's generally fine (I've lived in some of these "rough areas"). I think this says more about the general state of cities in the US than cities in general.