San Francisco newspaper warns people to watch where they step! hyperdermic needles and poop litter streets. (cost, state)
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SF's main problem is the socially liberal environment won't allow them to crack down as harshly on street people as they do in New York. Most times it's not the actual homeless people who are trying to survive, but "street people" who sleep in weekly motels, usually through an anti-homeless subsidy, and panhandle/drink/do drugs on the street the rest of the day.
San Francisco resident chiming in here. So, the article is spot on in reporting the hard drug epidemic in the city. Come to think of it, I have never seen so much drug use (both hard and soft) in this city ever. The city in general has gotten so grim and populated now by a whole section of youngish nerdy high earners , no concept of money and will pay whatever it takes to be part of the tech zeitgeist consuming the city. The net result, many working people can no longer afford to live in the city anymore. The alternatives are clear. Move back home, move out of the city or move into the bushes. For so long the domain of the most hardcore drug users , now has to be shared with some people who have no other choice. Before long, as I have seen it, some will succumb to heroin/meth/crack use. Now you have a living population of drug using addicts who will alternate between downtown and then make their way to GG park to find a cluster of fellow addicts to group with.
From daily jogs through GG park, I see tents and sleeping bags in every nook and cranny. Needles are littered allover the place. Even now, the park police have nightly patrols with big spotlights to pick out homeless from among the bushes and briars.
See, the tech boom was an insular one at that. Was it just the personality types who are not the best or most natural at socializing or engaging with others that is the big issue?. So much money around yet so little energy , especially among the well heeled tech yuppies. No concept of their ability to truly bring changes , for the better among many less affluent elements of the city. No clamor for better conditions for others as would be the "San Francisco Way". Give them a better gig designing some inane app or other and these young denizens of SF are good to go. Truly the most empty and socially inept souls ever to inhabit the city. Sad days alright.
You know they grandstand and posture about Sanctuary Cities. How about taking of your own real problems among the real residents or homeless first of all. Not going to happen as much more PR miles to be had with this Sanctuary City nonsense
The drug problem isn't confined to San Francisco. A lot of those people had jobs, health insurance and families. They started with the pills and ended up with heroin. They're the only ones who can solve the problem: they can OD and die, continue with their habit until they age out, end up in jail or get cleaned up. No city can fix that.
Having a bad day? There is no need to attack someone over a typo. If you were to say that you never made so much as one typo, you would by lying.
No, I'm having a fabulous day.
I usually review my posts for typos. Mistakes are a learning opportunity: if nobody points it out, you don't learn.
That's why this country is in the shape it's in: nobody cares about STANDARDS. Everybody gets a ribbon. Always making excuses and adjustments. Always the easy way out.
Pay attention to the little things. Start from there.
I personally love their hysterical posts. It's amusing.
To be fair, many in the US don't live where the local paper warns about needles and feces on the sidewalks.
Maybe in the Somalia Bugle or Sudan Daily News but I can't see papers in NY, Chicago, Houston, Philly or even Detroit issuing those kinds of warnings ,lol.
[quote=X14Freak;46693767]My friends used to see homeless people having sex out in the open in the Tenderloin and also witnessed prostitutes beating each other up. I was once called for jury duty and the trial was about a busted illegal prescription drug deal in the Tenderloin that led to murder. That said, I personally found 6th and Market to be worse than the Tenderloin.[/
I've been to San Fran twice, neither by choice, and 6th and Market was one of the places I wound up. I was 16 at the time, horribly naïve about city life having grown up on a ranch here in NV, and it scared me. I was on red alert the whole time I was there, which turned into a bit of a wait. 12 hours worth. Strangely, though I saw a lot, I didn't get messed with by anyone. I tucked into a corner with my gear and sort of ...forted up. Got eyeballed a couple times, saw some weird stuff go down. I have to admit it was an interesting exercise in people watching.
On my second visit I was more mobile, but wound up hopelessly lost. I don't know exactly the area I was. I came off the 101 and the freeway just vanished. I wandered around for over 4 hours and nobody would even talk to me for directions out of there. Not even a motorcycle cop I came up to. He looked at me like I was some sort of interesting type of lower primate , started up his bike and scooted off without a word. I finally found a guy at a gas station (who spoke English) and he had my head pointed right in under 30 seconds. Lol, but I ended up hitting the Golden Gate right at rush hour. Took me 2 more hours to get back to where I could go to warp and beat feet outa there. I have never been more happy to see open road in my life.
So I won't be putting the Bay Area in general on my top destination list. San Fran in particular is no place for a cowboy from rural NV. Reno is about as big as I want to get, and Carson City is just dandy. I'll leave the Bay Area wonderland to braver and more abstract souls than I.
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