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Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

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Re: Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never totally understood the attraction to it. Come live here in Baltimore. Plenty of tech jobs and a nice home in the city will cost 300k.

Baltimore? Tech jobs? Nice home? Don’t get me wrong, Baltimore has fun bars and Orioles games are fun..but I’ve never once heard anyone try to sell Baltimore as a great place for tech workers to live and work from

Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1dUk8x2XkA /s

Re: Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

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$1.7m toilet. All San Franciscans that pay tax have been victims of theft!

What about $18.2 million for 260 tents? That's ~$5,000 a month per tent, which is more than I paid for my apartment in downtown SF. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/S-F-officials-w... It's just plain corruption, and it won't stop until voters make it stop.

Prevention is better than cure... I don't find this price surprising unfortunately. A strong social security net and healthcare for all would cost much less to society and cause less suffering.

Re: Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

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post #8

It doesn't make sense to live in SF anymore. You can find those same jobs remotely. And with the pandemic, all my favorite restaurants have closed.

I never totally understood the attraction to it. Come live here in Baltimore. Plenty of tech jobs and a nice home in the city will cost 300k.

No thanks, I've lived in the DMV and it's worse than SF.

A lot of us who were born and raised in Cali have roots too deep to abandon.

Re: Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

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Reading this headline I thought to myself, this can't be possible. But then I remembered I got two packages stolen in two different neighborhood of the city, and during NYE someone broke the door of the backyard to probably see what they could steal there.

Re: Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

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$1.7m toilet. All San Franciscans that pay tax have been victims of theft!

What about $18.2 million for 260 tents? That's ~$5,000 a month per tent, which is more than I paid for my apartment in downtown SF. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/S-F-officials-w... It's just plain corruption, and it won't stop until voters make it stop.

Love how community organizers are building tiny houses and creating communities and cleaning up litter and the city just tears it down and gives us tents and shipping containers instead...

Re: Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

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post #8

It doesn't make sense to live in SF anymore. You can find those same jobs remotely. And with the pandemic, all my favorite restaurants have closed.

I never totally understood the attraction to it. Come live here in Baltimore. Plenty of tech jobs and a nice home in the city will cost 300k.

Isn’t Baltimore one of the most violent cities in the United States?

Re: Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

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Just had my entire car stolen a few days ago. It didn't last two weeks in the city. So much for a manual transmission being a theft deterrent lol

I had a old manual car I never locked because a broken window was more annoying than the risk it would wander off

Never lost it until my parents were using it and leaving it locked around SD. Ah well.

Re: Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says

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how is SF still so valuable if so much is going wrong

Because there are two cities: One of the ultra-rich and one for every one else. If you take your Maserati or Model X from your garage to an underground parking lot with a security guard, you don't care that there are thefts happening on the streets. Similar reasoning applies for every other issue people complain about. Don't like open-air markets for selling stolen goods in the Mission District? Simply don't go there. Out of sight, out of mind.
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