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I live 2 blocks away from this recycling center and visit Safeway almost everyday for either food or getting off the Muni. It's terrible. Just a few of my hea
by gogo5 13y ago
I live 2 blocks away from this recycling center and visit Safeway almost everyday for either food or getting off the Muni.
It's terrible.
Just a few of my headaches:
• Smells absolutely terrible
• When walking down Castro with my girlfriend we use the other side after many overly aggressively slurs from the slew of bums that hang out by this heap.
• It draws numerous crews of drifters that recycle cans then binge on the spoils on the steps of safeway. Fights break out weekly.
• It creates a "hobo highway" in which my female friends now avoid because it is filled with bums. This looks like rape alley at night.
• Bums bring their dogs to wait in line and they shit all over the sidewalk. That was awesome to wipe off in the morning.
• The really crazy bums like to ride their carts down market street flying through red lights, which I was almost hit by last month.
It might be cool to support the ongoing of recycling centers so less fortunate people have a way to make money but try living next to the place before writing an article about how you think its so unhippie of San Francisco.
- justin 13y agoI used to live a block and a half away, and I still live 4 blocks away. I agree, it's not the most desirable thing to have in a neighborhood. However, the amount of NIMBYism and mental gymnastics that goes on in SF is infuriating. The same citizens who support a government that spends $200m a year on homelessness are up in arms when services for the poor appear in their neighborhoods? The hypocrisy in SF is incredible.
- xyzzyz 13y agoThe same citizens who support a government that spends $200m a year on homelessness are up in arms when services for the poor appear in their neighborhoods? The hypocrisy in SF is incredible. I don't understand your amazement. It makes perfect sense for me. You want to pay money so that you don't have bums in your backyard. We do that in Europe, and works pretty well -- nowhere I've seen homelessness as rampant as in SF or Seattle.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoWell, the thinking is generally "let's give stuff to the poor because we're such nice people", not "let's pay off the poor to darken some other doorstep". This is the mindset behind your parent comment. If you want to not have bums in your backyard, you can do that much cheaper and more effectively than by paying them to stay in your backyard.
- bandushrew 13y agoThats really weird. IME Recycle places here in NZ tend to be clean, well maintained and effectively managed. Also the idea that the point of recycling is to give poor people the opportunity to root through trash is a new idea for me. Maybe there is something that could be improved in the San Francisco Recycling process?