<story><title>70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll</title><url>https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/8-out-of-10-san-franciscans-say-crime-has-gotten-worse-poll/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>burlesona</author><text>I feel like this experience is so common it’s almost cliche, but I ended up moving with my family out of the city in mid 2020 mostly due to the major influx of homeless into our neighborhood, which had very little before. I didn’t like my kids facing that every time we walked to the park or the grocery store. There was also a rise in petty crime that made the neighborhood feel a lot less safe.&lt;p&gt;It’s a tough situation. At the end of the day, mental health shouldn’t fall to any one city to be responsible for, but we have to start somewhere. I hope for the best and that SF can come up with an effective way to help people off the streets.</text></comment>
<story><title>70% of San Francisco residents say quality of life has declined: poll</title><url>https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/8-out-of-10-san-franciscans-say-crime-has-gotten-worse-poll/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dougmwne</author><text>I am currently in Warsaw. I have lived in SF. The quality of life is astoundingly different. There nearly zero visible homelessness people. There are low levels of crime and none visible. There are hardly any murders or gun crime. Not much property crime. There are quite a lot of police, but no brutality that I have heard of. I feel safe walking around at night. People have health care, higher education, and employees have strong legal protections with sane working hours. Taxes are reasonable. There&amp;#x27;s a good tech job market.&lt;p&gt;As I was leaving SF, I watched a homeless man with no teeth pick a morsel of food out of the gutter and eat it.&lt;p&gt;I am not sure if it&amp;#x27;s a case of boiling the frog, but trust me when I say that SF has an absolutely shameful inability to solve it&amp;#x27;s problems and that a city that was no more than a crater 70 years ago absolutely shines in comparison. I would not believe it if I hadn&amp;#x27;t seen it with my own eyes.</text></comment>