Goodbye, San Francisco
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Goodbye, San Francisco
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#4your article doesn’t include the term “doom loop”, you may want to edit it to add that in
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#5The local crime statistics are saying that San Francisco is a safe city with crime trending downwards.
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#6The local crime statistics are saying that San Francisco is a safe city with crime trending downwards.
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Each time I reported these incidents to the police, they never responded. I got the sense that as long as no one was physically harmed, they didn’t really care.
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#7People should consider moving to a different neighborhood first, pretty much none of these problems apply to me where I am in lower haight
SF also has way fewer drug murders than cities I have lived in on the east coast
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#8People should consider moving to a different neighborhood first, pretty much none of these problems apply to me where I am in lower haight SF also has way fewer drug murders than cities I have lived in on the east coast
That is addressed at the end of the article.
> Why didn’t you just move to a different part of SF?
> I wanted to live in a dense, central area and not in a single family house that’s 4 miles from downtown. Also, my neighborhood was perfectly nice when I moved in, and then got bad. What’s to prevent that from happening to other places in the city as well?
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#9People should consider moving to a different neighborhood first, pretty much none of these problems apply to me where I am in lower haight SF also has way fewer drug murders than cities I have lived in on the east coast
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#10The local crime statistics are saying that San Francisco is a safe city with crime trending downwards.
The article says as such:
> My biggest problem with SF was simply not feeling physically safe while walking down the street or sitting in a train. SF has a pretty low violent crime rate, at least by US standards, so I wasn’t worried about getting shot or robbed or anything like that.
> Instead, the problem was that SF had (and still has today), thousands of people wandering around who are suffering from untreated substance abuse and/or severe mental illness. The vast majority of these folks were completely harmless, but a small percentage were hostile, threatening, and, in some cases, violent.
> In multiple cases over the last few years, I was followed, screamed at, and threatened in broad daylight. Thankfully, nothing physically happened to me, but it’s a really jarring experience to have this happen. Each time I reported these incidents to the police, they never responded. I got the sense that as long as no one was physically harmed, they didn’t really care. Thus, there were no mechanisms in place to control, contain, or treat this behavior.