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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you know that there are kids who live in SF, and not just the poor kids who can't afford to live anywhere else.  There are some really really wealthy folks who live there with kids.  I'm sure they are just fine, and your kids would be too.[/quote]
NP. Stick to the touristy areas and "cleaner" neighborhoods (like Pacific Heights and the Marina) and you'll be fine. Stay away from the Tenderloin, South of Market, patches of the Mission, and anywhere within a few blocks of the Civic Center.[/quote]

I LIVE in SoMa, and I go to Civic Center all the time. There are a few museums there, and one that does walking tours of the area to show all the cool things in the area. There's one tour guide who is known to locals because he will go a little off-tour and show all the graffiti done by local artists.

Oh, and I have a ninth grader (who obviously also lives in SoMa) and she goes all over the city by herself and with friends. If she's out with friends when it's dark, she asks me to send an Uber to bring her home. The part of SoMa to stay away from is 6th Street. Everything else is perfectly safe. And actually, I've walked down 6th on occasion and it's fine - it's just not ... pretty. 
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OP, someone shooting up is not dangerous. Seeing used needles is not dangerous.  Seeing homeless people is not dangerous. Us locals will handle any homeless people who get dangerous near you - we know you're way too scared, and we may know the specific homeless person so know whether to yell at them, to talk, to physically move them out of your way. [/b]

Lastly, DD and I are a smidge above poor. She goes to public school. Many of her classmates live in big, fancy houses and they regularly travel out of the country for holidays. [/quote]

This bold part highlights an attitude that is a big part of California's growing problems.[/quote]

For the pp who thinks that used needles is not dangerous, you should read the link posted above. Please think twice before letting your daughter walk on her own on those streets.

““If you do get stuck with these disposed needles you can get HIV, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, and a variety of other viral diseases,” said Dr. Lee Riley, an infectious disease expert at University of California, Berkeley. He warned that once fecal matter dries, it can become airborne, releasing potentially dangerous viruses, such as the rotavirus. “If you happen to inhale that, it can also go into your intestine,” he said. The results can prove fatal, especially in children.”[/quote]
Quit it with the pearl clutching and talk of the "MSM." We can all see through it, and it's obvious you haven't been or wouldn't go to San Francisco because it doesn't align with your worldview.

I'm the PP who said to stick to Pacific Heights or the Marina. To the PP who stuck up for SoMA and Civic Center, I agree that there are some interesting cultural activities in those parts of town, but some of the sights/smells can be jarring and unsavory to an outsider who has never seen city grit or a real homeless problem. I have seen it first hand, as I used to do medical outreach all over SF and spent lots of time in those areas, as well as Hunter's Point and Bayview.

San Francisco has its problems, but it's a lot cleaner than New York. I would know - I've lived in both. Hell, it's cleaner than some ratty parts of DC, because DC residents seem to have no qualms about letting their precious little canine "children" poop everywhere and/or dropping their used food wrappers on the sidewalk.[/quote]

Sorry San Francisco poster but you are insane.

And of course many of us posting have been to San Francisco or lived in northern California.

The government policies over the past decade and beliefs of people like you have turned some amazing California into disgusting cess pools and 3rd world health hazards.

It is not compassionate to create situations where junkies shoot up in broad daylight and live in their own filth on public streets [/quote]

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