San Francisco, I want your equivalent..

[E14]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Didn't have it in in New York City. Actually I've also lived in Asia, South America and Europe the last 10 years.

San Francisco was more worse than a third-world country. I get harrassed a whole lot less in Rio de Jainero, Bangkok, Las Paz, Jakarta, Lima, Beijing, than I did working down by CIty Hall in SF for a year and walking along Market Street.

A little bit is to be expected, but San Francisco is excessive. All they have to do is put up signs 'no soliciting'. I occassionally use to walk over to Wendys from CIty Hall for lunch break, one time I had 5 separate homeless walk in off the street to ask me for a $1 while I was eating my already cheap dinner in the fastfood joint.

Had I been in Jakarta, Manila, Caracas, Brasilia, that would have been completely unacceptable behavior.

Don't get me wrong, I love my home country, and I love California, and I love San Francisco...but if third world countries and New York City, I've felt completely comfortable with miniscule homeless bothering me once in awhile, than SF should be fine too...but it's on another level there much worse than third world countries.

Anyways, I've never lived in a suburb with no intention to, so that's not an option.

how hard is it to ignore them or just tell them to **** off?

[sonarrat]

Originally Posted by E14

how hard is it to ignore them or just tell them to **** off?

Much better to just ignore them. I pretend they're not even there and I've been yelled at, but no one has pressed any harder. So many of them are just professional panhandlers after an easy buck.

[ecvMatt]

Originally Posted by mysticaltyger

It's funny you mention you like the politics of SF. The irony is a lot of the things you hate about it are at least partly the result of SF politics (cost of living, nickel & diming, homelessness).

Winner!

Originally Posted by E14

how hard is it to ignore them or just tell them to **** off?

I prefer the preemptive strike, when they approach, I ask them for a dollar.

[E14]

Originally Posted by sonarrat

Much better to just ignore them. I pretend they're not even there and I've been yelled at, but no one has pressed any harder. So many of them are just professional panhandlers after an easy buck.

yeah it was a rhetorical question because ive never had any problem saying no or just ignoring them, but the OP seems to have a big problem with them for some reason. ive never been yelled at or even given a second glance

[Radical347]

All the options have already been mentioned. I'd rank them:
1. Boston (In particular Brookline was a good rec)
2. back to NYC
3. Vancouver BC (But avoid Chinatown, it seems like all of Canada's homeless are bunched into these few square blocks.)
4. Seattle (aka SF Lite)
5. Madison WI (I guess. I agree that he might get bored as hell here, but it is much cleaner and cheaper less homeless than SF/Seattle/VBC. Plus getting around by transit here is doable though not ideal.)