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I live in the Atlanta region, and while Buckhead, Midtown, Atlantic Station, Virginia-Highland, and the Centennial Park area of downtown have a lot of people, and are semi vibrant to vibrant, downtown is loaded with homeless and gangsters. There's no getting around it.
Fairlie-Poplar is okay, as is the part of Peachtree Street near the Hard Rock Cafe. The Centennial Park area is okay. However, the rest of downtown is a dangerous, homeless-filled, and gangster-filled area.
Yeah I'd be willing to bet that neighborhood has more ugly people per capita than any other in the nation. So many zombies and drug abuse-transformed facial features.
I wouldn't be surprised, haha. I once heard the tenderloin has the highest concentration of registered sex offenders out of any neighborhood in the US. Don't know how true that is, but i could definitely believe it.
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Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948
san francisco has a lot of crazy people downtown but they all have jobs and make a lota money.
What? Lol, the things some people say.
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Originally Posted by trailerguy
I don't know how you quantify this, but the angry, aggressive, irrational and apparently homeless people in San Francisco abound in numbers and intrusiveness. They can be very frightening and can turn violent. There are several possible reasons for the problem: (1) The temperate climate which makes outdoor living tenable, (2) the knee-jerk liberal government which seems to think that treating mentally ill people is oppressive and that allowing the problem to progress unabated makes some kind of political statement, (3) the ill-thought-out deinstitutionalization program from the 1960's with the failure to implement the promised community-based alternatives, (4) a completely useless police department that refuses to do anything about anything, (5) a severely misguided laissez-faire mentality that seems to think mental illness is an alternative lifestyle; not necessarily in that order.
Of course we have them in Chicago too, but (1) they have to go indoors in the winter which increases the likelihood they will receive treatment, (2) we have an administration that thinks keeping the city livable for everyone else is important.
No one thinks the treatment of mentally ill people is oppressive, and no one considers mental illness an alternative lifestyle either...not in SF, and not anywhere else that I know of. Many of the old state run mental institutions that were emptied out in the 1980's WERE "oppressive" though, in a sense. There was a lot of underfunding and neglect, and ineffective as well as sometimes downright cruel treatment of patients. Obviously the next chapter ended up even worse though: kick 'em all out on the street.
Ah KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN I've never in my life seen so many crazies homeless ain't the bad ones this whole city is whacked its dirty too it goes by the zoo seriously its a crazy ville so stop by and check it out please tell me if im wrong
LA seemed to have a lot. Haven't been there since 2008 though. NYC has a lot depending what blocks you walk down. There are usually a lot on 34th street. I hear San Francisco has a lot, at least a lot of bums. I don't know since I haven't been yet, but I'll be there in May. My friend just came back from there and said there were a lot of bums Downtown in SF. Philly surprisingly doesn't have much. Around the Market East area you'll see some characters but the Center City District does a good job of shooing them away in most areas.
umm NYC duh! NYC has so many homeless just laying around, when i lived their i used to see a naked homeless man run around, i was their a week ago and i when walking down Broadway you just see hundred of homeless people some have cancer some our mentally ill some are freaking crazy one homeless man threatened that the world was going to end just by him pushing a button on the subway. I have never seen so many homeless in my life, NYC is the homeless capital in the world. San Fransico has a good number of homeless too.
Ah KALAMAZOO MICHIGAN I've never in my life seen so many crazies homeless ain't the bad ones this whole city is whacked its dirty too it goes by the zoo seriously its a crazy ville so stop by and check it out please tell me if im wrong
Funny i had cousins that lived their and never seen not one homeless person.
Skid Row in Los Angeles is up there at the top, at least in total numbers.
Agreed. It's either LA or SF, and unfortunately I think that it may be LA. Anyone taking a wrong turn into the skid row area at night would be in for a real shock. It's like stuff you only see on TV with what appear to be thousands of homeless wandering around, sleeping on sidewalks, turning tricks all over, shooting up heroin in plain sight...and so on. LA and SF are way ahead of NYC in this statistic.
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