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Can confirm. In general, unless you actually step into them, human feces are not a problem. Just watch your step and be alert. How difficult can it be?
You should submit this to the next license plate slogan contest. “San Francisco - Don’t like needles, just watch your step!”
A lot of my family has lived in SF for decades, all of them have moved out in the past 4 years. It's a monstrous dystopia now. The ultra rich completely insulated from the human misery sprawled out in every direction around them while their peasants toil away as tiny ants looked down upon with pity from their gleaming towers.
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Nope. There are plenty of local problems that the city has been completely inept at solving. Go look at how much it costs to build a mile of tunnel and how late it is. Roughly 1b and 10 years late and the clock is still running.
Which is in line with infrastructure costs throughout the country. How much did the 2nd Ave subway cost? LA Metro expansion?
Per my own experience SF is not a bad place to live. But the homelessness has gotten worse so I had to get out.
> Per my own experience SF is not a bad place to live. I have the opposite view. In SF, your risk of the following occurring is non-negligible and in some cases, shockingly quite likely: - Being mugged/robbed - Having your car broken into - Being harangued or even assaulted by someone who is mentally ill and/or under the influence - Witnessing public urination, defecation, drug use and grab and go retail theft - Step…
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Which is in line with infrastructure costs throughout the country. How much did the 2nd Ave subway cost? LA Metro expansion?
That doesn't mean that SF isn't incompetent. That means they are all incompetent. You have those cities also complain about those costs.
I will note that California seems to be America's dumping ground for the nation's homeless problem. There are also long-standing federal and state housing policies impacting San Francisco. I have no idea how dysfunctional the local city government is in this case, but there are things going on here beyond its control. It's not fair or reasonable to act like the condition the city is in is entirely due to local govern…
I keep hearing this. Do you have any citations for "America's dumping ground". How many homeless are migrating to California? > As the data shows us, most of the homeless people you pass on the streets every day are in fact Californians. > Less than a fifth (18 percent) said they had lived out of state before becoming homeless. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/homeless-population.ht... Everytime this argument ha…
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That doesn't mean that SF isn't incompetent. That means they are all incompetent. You have those cities also complain about those costs.
Then root causes that put blame on San Francisco voters are not very convincing.
Also, you can also put forth the hypothesis that voters in all those cities are to blame.
That isn't my hypothesis by the way.
27 year San Francisco resident here. The government here is dysfunctional because that's what people voted for. The fact that people pay so much to live here says that people are willing to put up with a lot in exchange for living in a diverse and beautiful city.
Working in Manhattan many years later, I expected much the same arriving for the first time, but surprisingly wasn't so. What the hell are they doing wrong there? This article says much.
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Just because people vote for it, it doesn’t mean it is what people want. There is also the option that the voting system is faulty and that the voters don’t have a real option. As an example, the city of Reykjavík has 23 representatives in the city council. They are voted proportionally from parties represented distinct views. San Francisco board of supervisors have 11 members, less then half of Reykjavík’s despite h…
> And to make it worse, each member is voted on a first past the post system That's not actually true, we use RCV to elect supervisors (and the mayor).
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yep. I moved to the SF Bay area from NYC 4 years ago and I routinely tell my friends that you need to watch out for human, not animal, feces on the street. It's really sad to see people who are employed that are still homeless and have to deal with mental issues :(
Reading from HN, half of Americans are either in jail or homeless dealing with mental issues. Are there proper statistics to get a better assessment of the situation?
--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...
The list of countries by incarceration rate is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera....
About 5% of people in the US go to prison at some point, 9% for males, 16% for Hispanic males, and 29% for black males. https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/Llgsfp.pdf
"About one-quarter of U.S. adults report having a mental health diagnosis such as anxiety or depression or experiencing emotional distress. This is one of the highest rates among 11 high-income countries. ... The United States has some of the worst mental health–related outcomes, including the highest suicide rate and second-highest drug-related death rate."
--https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
And of course, "Approximately 80 percent of the global opioid supply is consumed in the United States".
-- https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/27/americans-consume-almost-all...