Recent San Francisco Experiences

[Anonymous]

Why the uptick of homeless in SF?

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. Please all you pearl clutchers stay away. SF is not interested in your business anyhow.

I know, right? They can stick to their vacations in the Hamptons and leave the fun places to the rest of us.

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. Please all you pearl clutchers stay away. SF is not interested in your business anyhow.

I know, right? They can stick to their vacations in the Hamptons and leave the fun places to the rest of us.

Many of loved San Francisco.

Poop, needles and aggressive junkie homeless have ruined the city

Why are you so offensive about the idea of this? Do you like living in filth?

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. Please all you pearl clutchers stay away. SF is not interested in your business anyhow.

I know, right? They can stick to their vacations in the Hamptons and leave the fun places to the rest of us.

Many of loved San Francisco.

Poop, needles and aggressive junkie homeless have ruined the city

Why are you so offensive about the idea of this? Do you like living in filth?

They consider it "culture" and "adventurous"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. Please all you pearl clutchers stay away. SF is not interested in your business anyhow.

I know, right? They can stick to their vacations in the Hamptons and leave the fun places to the rest of us.

Works for me. The best vacation are free of poop and druggies

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. Please all you pearl clutchers stay away. SF is not interested in your business anyhow.

I know, right? They can stick to their vacations in the Hamptons and leave the fun places to the rest of us.

Many of loved San Francisco.

Poop, needles and aggressive junkie homeless have ruined the city

Why are you so offensive about the idea of this? Do you like living in filth?

They consider it "culture" and "adventurous"

Yes.

Nothing says adventure than feces and a raging case of hepititus.

[Anonymous]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Diseased-Streets-472430013.html%3famp=y

Hundreds of blocks with trash, needles and poop piles according to an official city clean up attempt.

From the article:

"The Investigate Unit spent three days assessing conditions on the streets of downtown San Francisco and discovered trash on each of the 153 blocks surveyed. While some streets were littered with items as small as a candy wrapper, the vast majority of trash found included large heaps of garbage, food, and discarded junk. The investigation also found 100 drug needles and more than 300 piles of feces throughout downtown."

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. Please all you pearl clutchers stay away. SF is not interested in your business anyhow.

I know, right? They can stick to their vacations in the Hamptons and leave the fun places to the rest of us.

Many of loved San Francisco.

Poop, needles and aggressive junkie homeless have ruined the city

Why are you so offensive about the idea of this? Do you like living in filth?

They consider it "culture" and "adventurous"

Yes.

Nothing says adventure than feces and a raging case of hepititus.

You mean hepatitis.

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. Please all you pearl clutchers stay away. SF is not interested in your business anyhow.

I know, right? They can stick to their vacations in the Hamptons and leave the fun places to the rest of us.

Many of loved San Francisco.

Poop, needles and aggressive junkie homeless have ruined the city

Why are you so offensive about the idea of this? Do you like living in filth?

They consider it "culture" and "adventurous"

Yes.

Nothing says adventure than feces and a raging case of hepititus.

You mean hepatitis.

It is weird.

My phone autocorrected it to that spelling.

I wonder if I accidentally saved an incorrect spelling into the system. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Anonymous]

I have walked around for blocks in both DC and NYC, and not once have I ever encountered one pile of human waste, let along 300 piles of human waste

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have walked around for blocks in both DC and NYC, and not once have I ever encountered one pile of human waste, let along 300 piles of human waste

Now you’ve got me wondering.

So where do the homeless poop in DC and NYC?

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Anonymous wrote:This is hilarious. Please all you pearl clutchers stay away. SF is not interested in your business anyhow.

I know, right? They can stick to their vacations in the Hamptons and leave the fun places to the rest of us.

Sonoma & Napa (esp Meadowood!) are wonderful!

A pp who will pass on the city at this point.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh great, a friend and I are going next week for 5 days (just two women.) I really hope this is exagerrated.

I do know two older (early 60s) family members who just went in April and their only comment was that there were a lot of homeless people.... which SF is well known for. These are Fox News watching 60 year olds, so I hope that's an accurate representation of what they saw. They stayed in Union Square, which is also where we are staying.

Tons of homeless people in union square. I was targeted by homeless youth the last time I was there, and I was nearly mugged. A local saw then casing me, approached me and scared them off. I had noticed them as well and sensed something was off, so I was grateful to the local who stepped in. He said it happens a lot.

Where are you from? Have you ever interacted with any homeless people before? I'm the person going with a friend next week, and I have lived in Baltimore and my friend lives in DC. We both have had "encounters" with homeless before... so this is not unfamiliar for us. Just curious if this was something you'd never dealt with before, which is why it sticks out so much to you, or if it truly was a unique situation.

Obviously you have not seen or experienced California homelessness.

No I have not, hence the questions? Seems obvious to me. I have been to southern California (LA and San Diego) and never noticed any homeless/any difference from what you see everywhere.

Ok so first, it was all CA homeless. Now it's just SF homeless. And I've asked repeatedly what the difference is, and just keep getting "SF homeless are unlike any other." OKAY BUT HOW?
There is a huge difference between SoCal homeless and San Fran homeless.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh great, a friend and I are going next week for 5 days (just two women.) I really hope this is exagerrated.

I do know two older (early 60s) family members who just went in April and their only comment was that there were a lot of homeless people.... which SF is well known for. These are Fox News watching 60 year olds, so I hope that's an accurate representation of what they saw. They stayed in Union Square, which is also where we are staying.

Tons of homeless people in union square. I was targeted by homeless youth the last time I was there, and I was nearly mugged. A local saw then casing me, approached me and scared them off. I had noticed them as well and sensed something was off, so I was grateful to the local who stepped in. He said it happens a lot.

Where are you from? Have you ever interacted with any homeless people before? I'm the person going with a friend next week, and I have lived in Baltimore and my friend lives in DC. We both have had "encounters" with homeless before... so this is not unfamiliar for us. Just curious if this was something you'd never dealt with before, which is why it sticks out so much to you, or if it truly was a unique situation.

Obviously you have not seen or experienced California homelessness.

No I have not, hence the questions? Seems obvious to me. I have been to southern California (LA and San Diego) and never noticed any homeless/any difference from what you see everywhere.

Ok so first, it was all CA homeless. Now it's just SF homeless. And I've asked repeatedly what the difference is, and just keep getting "SF homeless are unlike any other." OKAY BUT HOW?
There is a huge difference between SoCal homeless and San Fran homeless.

The number of them for one thing.

Ca as a whole has a growing problem with them. Even San Diego which traditionally had a low homeless population has had trouble with hepatitis. But for San Fran specifically a lot of it is numbers. A larger homeless population means more druggie strung out on the streets, more human waste on the streets, larger number of violent homeless, etc

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why the uptick of homeless in SF?

Because other cities sent busloads of THEIR homeless people here via bus. Now we're stuck with them. Plus, we do not have enough housing for the working poor because of all the rich tech firms that came in and hired high earners. That created a housing bubble and rents skyrocketed. So we have public school teachers who are living in their cars, and fire fighters and EMT people who live two hours outside the city. So for example, we've had some contract lawyers working at my law firm and the other day found out the one sitting near me has been taking a 2.5 hour commute each way from Los Gatos. She needs the work.

So the people who had three months of savings, had to spend it. The people who moved in with roommates, lost their rentals when their leases were up. They couch-surfed as long as possible, and then had no choice but to become homeless.