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That's clearly not enough. Tech executives are doing too many drugs and it's leading to this kind of behavior, it's a cultural problem. They need fewer broken families and more time spent in church. And these rotten ones they need to be under constant watch by strict, controlling wardens.
Flawless. Maybe throw in “tech-on-tech crime”.
I wonder if we will get apologies from the people who used this to justify spreading horribly malicious rhetoric toward homeless people.
If you want to rename your account, we can do that, but in the meantime I've banned this one.
Also, please don't use HN for ideological or political battle—it's against HN's rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
When I moved to SF in 1996, the murder count that year was 86. Last year it was 56. I haven't been back in a very long time, but I guarantee you it's a far safer city than it was back then. I lived on Market between 6th and 7th and had knives pulled on me, and watched a car get blown up across the street underneath Hollywood Billiards, which is long gone now - according to Google Maps, they're building new apartments…
pretty sure the mentally ill and "poorest folks",as you say, have "colonized" every part of the city. this logic is a two way street.
When I moved to SF in 1996, the murder count that year was 86. Last year it was 56. I haven't been back in a very long time, but I guarantee you it's a far safer city than it was back then. I lived on Market between 6th and 7th and had knives pulled on me, and watched a car get blown up across the street underneath Hollywood Billiards, which is long gone now - according to Google Maps, they're building new apartments…
I don't understand this mentality. https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Uni... there is no reason that SF has to be a lot less safe than Zurich. Zurich is not populated by aliens, people live in both places It's political choices that make it the way it is.
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I don't understand this mentality. https://www.numbeo.com/crime/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Uni... there is no reason that SF has to be a lot less safe than Zurich. Zurich is not populated by aliens, people live in both places It's political choices that make it the way it is.
I agreed with the parent's sentiments initially. But then I saw your comment before the edit, where you had called this "uneducated loser mentality." I'm sad that you edited it, because you're also right. >I loved the Tenderloin back then, even though it was terrifying. It was full of weirdos and loonies and junkies and poverty stricken artsy types like me, who had no power or desire in gentrification - we were just…
San Francisco’s old guard in a nutshell.
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It feels a bit like you're championing a narrative of "See, it's not so bad! You'll just get your stuff stolen and your car vandalized!" I wouldn't feel so smug about that. I lived in SF for ~15 years, experienced multiple car breakins (when I had a car) and one weird guy who walked up to me on the street and said "I have a gun and I'm going to shoot you" (which I somehow calmly ignored). For the record, I didn't com…
I’ve been accosted by strange people in multiple cities if that’s the standard of disorder now. Not saying it’s nice for that to happen but I don’t think it says much about SF.
As have I. One of the most serious was at the bus station in the huge metropolis of Santa Cruz, CA[0] (population ~63,000 in 2020).
As I've said elsewhere many, many times: There are assholes everywhere.
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When I moved to SF in 1996, the murder count that year was 86. Last year it was 56. I haven't been back in a very long time, but I guarantee you it's a far safer city than it was back then. I lived on Market between 6th and 7th and had knives pulled on me, and watched a car get blown up across the street underneath Hollywood Billiards, which is long gone now - according to Google Maps, they're building new apartments…
Your comment borders on defending violent crime and murder. As if stabbings are part of San Francisco's quirky, artsy past, and the people that live here should think of violent crime as character-building.
https://sfist.com/2017/02/28/the_10_most_infamous_san_franci...
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This reply is either a troll post or you're severely disconnected from reality.
Ah yea you’re right. San Francisco is actually a wonderful place to raise a family and live a good life where nothing bad happens.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34632592 (Feb 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160890 (May 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26767586 (April 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23506140 (June 2020)