Nearly Half of San Franciscans Have Been Victims of Theft, New Poll Says • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by skuhn » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:10 AM UTC

omot wrote: post #16

grubbs wrote: post #8

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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.

For me there's no city in the US as walkable as NYC or SF. NYC is super busy, but I just like how I could bike / walk / transit virtually anywhere within the city.

Boston is also pretty walkable, but I agree that there aren't a lot of options in the US.

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

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Post by devoutsalsa » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:10 AM UTC

braingenious wrote: post #19

testfrequency wrote: post #10

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“better place”. Where are you implying?

I think the poster is implying that they don’t find San Francisco to be a particularly desirable place to live compared to other places.

I used to go for walks around my SF apartment in the Tenderloin. To keep myself entertained, I'd count the number of poops I saw on the sidewalk.

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

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Post by google234123 » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:11 AM UTC

Those darn Republicans and you know Reagan was governor of California one time!!

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

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Post by scythe » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:11 AM UTC

testfrequency wrote: post #12

grubbs wrote: post #8

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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

I've never heard Baltimore described as a place with a low crime rate! I guess it depends on what you're comparing it to.

Just one recommendation. Don't move to Charleston. It's awful here, you'll hate it. ^^;

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

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Post by topaz0 » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:12 AM UTC

testfrequency wrote: post #12

grubbs wrote: post #8

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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

I'm sure it would be more expensive if they did.

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

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Post by testfrequency » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:13 AM UTC

midislack wrote: post #29

testfrequency wrote: post #10

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“better place”. Where are you implying?

Most cities don't have or need a shit tracker app. Just sayin it's progressive.

I’ll be sure to develop a Cartel app for Miami, a Kidnapping app for the state of Texas, and a Homeless app for Denver so you have more content to post in the future

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

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Post by barbariangrunge » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:13 AM UTC

What is the rate for other big cities? Is this a lot higher than usual, or only a little higher?

The thing is that people steal things everywhere. Bikes. Cigarette lighters. Money left out. Scam items off Amazon or eBay is a form of theft. Your beer at parties. Lawn gnomes.

I don’t know many people anywhere who haven’t had something stolen from them at some point, so I’m not sure what this is saying

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Post by ALittleLight » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:13 AM UTC

A lot of unbelievable stats in this article. "only 12% of residents say that racism does not make solving problems more difficult." That's an odd finding to me. SF has always struck me as very progressive, but now I'm seeing that a large majority of the city thinks the city has a racism problem.

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

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Post by not2b » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:13 AM UTC

grubbs wrote: post #8

29athrowaway wrote: post #6

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.

Baltimore isn't a place to move to if the motivation is to avoid crime.

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Post by testfrequency » Fri, Oct 21, 2022, 1:14 AM UTC

dymk wrote: post #13

testfrequency wrote: post #10

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“better place”. Where are you implying?

That places better than SF exist and people are moving to them.

Why is everything “better” or “worse”. City vs. City.

This is such a lame argument and only feeds whoever is seeking validation that they live in right place