<story><title>I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2021/05/24/i-was-robbed-in-san-francisco-while-the-cameras-rolled/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yupper32</author><text>&amp;gt; This was my third time in SF.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Also, I&amp;#x27;ve always refused to move to Silicon Valley&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The author is in denial.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; it is a really expensive shithole&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m always amazed by people who have visited a place a few times as a tourist and think &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m qualified to shit on people who choose to live here&amp;quot;. What makes you think you have any say in the situation?&lt;p&gt;SF has &lt;i&gt;massive&lt;/i&gt; neighborhood diversity as far as living situations go. Yeah, the downtown and tourist areas suck. So what? That&amp;#x27;s the case in a ton of cities. I&amp;#x27;ve lived in a neighborhood here for 7 years that has low crime, no shit on the streets, and is generally a great place to live.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, we&amp;#x27;ve got a shit DA right now which hurts the city with increased petty crimes. We&amp;#x27;ll turn it around eventually.</text></item><item><author>84fryb75</author><text>In early 2020, before lockdown, I visited San Francisco as a tourist with my wife. We took a wrong turn at a book store and wound up on a street covered in feces. The next street was fine. Then on the next, we watched a homeless woman shoot up on the street. Then a supercar pulled into a garage.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not the best traveled, I&amp;#x27;ll admit, so I can&amp;#x27;t compare SF to foreign cities. I&amp;#x27;m a simple hillbilly from the Southeast, but I lived in NY for a time and I&amp;#x27;ve visited most of the big cities in the US.&lt;p&gt;This was my third time in SF. Every time I&amp;#x27;ve visited, since 2016 or so, I&amp;#x27;ve collected another story like this.&lt;p&gt;The homeless are way more aggressive than they are in Chicago or Texan cities. The feces. The crime.&lt;p&gt;Now people are moving away. The author is in denial. San Francisco has nice weather and beautiful hills, but it is a really expensive shithole. A really, really expensive shithole.&lt;p&gt;Now look at the leadership in the city, and ask yourself, who is responsible for this?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m so glad I chose to live in Texas, but at this point I&amp;#x27;d move to the Detroit area before San Francisco. At least the rent is good there.&lt;p&gt;In any case, the census data shows I&amp;#x27;m not alone. I just hope the Californians moving to Texas don&amp;#x27;t vote for the same laws that made San Francisco such a hole.&lt;p&gt;Also, I&amp;#x27;ve always refused to move to Silicon Valley, despite working in tech. I don&amp;#x27;t regret it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Cookingboy</author><text>&amp;gt;What makes you think you have any say in the situation?&lt;p&gt;He doesn&amp;#x27;t have a say, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t mean he can&amp;#x27;t have valid opinions as an outsider with a more unbiased perspective.&lt;p&gt;To be clear I&amp;#x27;ve lived in SF Bay Area for 10+ years and I&amp;#x27;ve also traveled extensively&amp;#x2F;lived in other world class cities.&lt;p&gt;SF &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; is a more expensive shithole. It doesn&amp;#x27;t mean there aren&amp;#x27;t any charms but anyone who doesn&amp;#x27;t acknowledge SF&amp;#x27;s shortfalls vs. other top cities is in complete denial.</text></comment>
<story><title>I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled</title><url>https://petapixel.com/2021/05/24/i-was-robbed-in-san-francisco-while-the-cameras-rolled/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>yupper32</author><text>&amp;gt; This was my third time in SF.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Also, I&amp;#x27;ve always refused to move to Silicon Valley&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The author is in denial.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; it is a really expensive shithole&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m always amazed by people who have visited a place a few times as a tourist and think &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m qualified to shit on people who choose to live here&amp;quot;. What makes you think you have any say in the situation?&lt;p&gt;SF has &lt;i&gt;massive&lt;/i&gt; neighborhood diversity as far as living situations go. Yeah, the downtown and tourist areas suck. So what? That&amp;#x27;s the case in a ton of cities. I&amp;#x27;ve lived in a neighborhood here for 7 years that has low crime, no shit on the streets, and is generally a great place to live.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, we&amp;#x27;ve got a shit DA right now which hurts the city with increased petty crimes. We&amp;#x27;ll turn it around eventually.</text></item><item><author>84fryb75</author><text>In early 2020, before lockdown, I visited San Francisco as a tourist with my wife. We took a wrong turn at a book store and wound up on a street covered in feces. The next street was fine. Then on the next, we watched a homeless woman shoot up on the street. Then a supercar pulled into a garage.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not the best traveled, I&amp;#x27;ll admit, so I can&amp;#x27;t compare SF to foreign cities. I&amp;#x27;m a simple hillbilly from the Southeast, but I lived in NY for a time and I&amp;#x27;ve visited most of the big cities in the US.&lt;p&gt;This was my third time in SF. Every time I&amp;#x27;ve visited, since 2016 or so, I&amp;#x27;ve collected another story like this.&lt;p&gt;The homeless are way more aggressive than they are in Chicago or Texan cities. The feces. The crime.&lt;p&gt;Now people are moving away. The author is in denial. San Francisco has nice weather and beautiful hills, but it is a really expensive shithole. A really, really expensive shithole.&lt;p&gt;Now look at the leadership in the city, and ask yourself, who is responsible for this?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m so glad I chose to live in Texas, but at this point I&amp;#x27;d move to the Detroit area before San Francisco. At least the rent is good there.&lt;p&gt;In any case, the census data shows I&amp;#x27;m not alone. I just hope the Californians moving to Texas don&amp;#x27;t vote for the same laws that made San Francisco such a hole.&lt;p&gt;Also, I&amp;#x27;ve always refused to move to Silicon Valley, despite working in tech. I don&amp;#x27;t regret it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kardianos</author><text>Because we walk around our own cities for YEARS and see less of this then we do on a random walk on a single day.</text></comment>