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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

I did homeless street outreach in Baltimore for 3 years before moving to DC where I do homeless advocacy as my day job. I've traveled to nearly 50 cities domestically and abroad for work, and SF and LA's skid row are the worst I've ever seen. The difference between SF and Skid Row in LA is that it's concentrated in one area in LA, whereas it's more widespread in SF. San Diego is a close second. Then you have Seattle, and then NYC.

DC and Baltimore are tame compared to the other cities IMHO.

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