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Hear here. ex-NYC too -- SF is a lot like the New York of around 25+ years ago. It's a bit unfortunate, but getting a substantially cleaner, safer SF would req
by danbmil99 12y ago
Hear here. ex-NYC too -- SF is a lot like the New York of around 25+ years ago.
It's a bit unfortunate, but getting a substantially cleaner, safer SF would require a cultural shift away from egalitarian principles that are deeply ingrained in the city's DNA.
Note that while downtown Manhattan is approaching a dystopian Disneyland of tourist-friendly homogeneity, there are still parts of the city that are scary no-man's-land, you just don't see them if you visit or live & work in gentrified neighborhoods.
Back in the day, NYC was nice or nasty block by block, just like SF is today.
- Perdition 12y ago> It's a bit unfortunate, but getting a substantially cleaner, safer SF would require a cultural shift away from egalitarian principles that are deeply ingrained in the city's DNA. No it wouldn't. It would just require spending more money on public sanitation. Of course if you let homeless congregate and don't provide the services to clean up after them the place is going to get filthy. But there are more solutions than getting rid of the homeless.