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[quote=Anonymous]We just spent 4 days in San Francisco and I gotta say there was some serious culture shock. I hadn't been for about 14 years, used to go yearly as a child/teen and the difference was striking. I remember seeing "hobo" types there before, people who train hopped and eccentric feral types - this was something else entirely. The city is teeming with packs of young adults and I was alarmed. I am not talking about homeless people, my heart goes out to people in that situation and expect there to be more in any major city, this was something else entirely.

Is this a new type of culture attractive to teens, a product of unemployment rates being high, or what? Is San Francisco just a mecca for them? When they would ask for money they were polite about it, then when we'd give they would be really rude and it was almost scary a couple of times. Front desk at our hotel called them crusties when my DH mentioned one encounter.

Example from our first day - there were 4 pretty dirty "kids" with a couple of dogs and one held his hand out and asked my DH:

"Sir, can you spare some change."
My DH handed him a $20 and said, "Get yourselves something to eat, do your dogs have food?"
"Yes, Sir, okay."
We started to walk away and we get "Hey, what about the rest of us." "You can afford more." "Just $20, your purse is worth 10 times that" and we got heckled by them for about a block while they followed us. One of the dogs started barking and growling and we heard "He loves the taste of rich assholes"

We saw these types of exchanges happening over and over. We saw one man hand a group two pizzas and he got a "F*ck you I'm vegan" and "give us the cash" I handed a girl about 8 dollars, all I had in cash and was about to ask her if she wanted to get some supplies at the little market before she said "Thats it? F*ck your day!"

I was pretty shocked and we stuck to pretty touristy areas and the marina district, but saw them every where we went. 
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