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I've invited a few new friends from around the world to SF now (@visakanv, @TheAnnaGat, @MatjazLeonardis), and it's been disconcerting to notice how comfortable I've become with the ambient on-street violence relative to my guests https://t.co/nDdbC1wxB2
Immediately after picking up Matjaz from the airport, we went to a nearby drive-through to get him some food. A man was in the parking lot shouting and throwing anything he could find in random directions for no discernable reason. I struggled to explain why this didn't shock me.
I find the situation with property crime more shocking when I reflect on it. Because I can’t think of anyone I know who has been assaulted by a stranger, and I still feel pretty safe personally, but bike stealing and breaking into cars is so normal I take it for granted!
mugging seems to be a bigger problem in downtown berkeley than in SF for some reason (mostly easily intimidated students I guess). muggers tend not to be schizo addict ramblers tho afaik. property crime seems kinda inevitable with so much income inequality & SF as homeless mecca
I don't quite understand why people who live there aren't itching to leave at the first opportunity. Are the trade-offs really *that* good? (Aside from tech opportunity, which I imagine you could get even if you stayed clear of SF proper but maybe not.)https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1010341244587905025 …
That's funny. It makes me feel a little better about Cape Town, which is basically an asylum. You'll cross at least one crazy person each day if you're in Cape Town.
A friend of mine and I took 2 of his German friends out for a night in town. We heard a bottle smash, then and then saw police chasing after a guy. I kinda looked over my shoulder to see what was going on. The Germans were freaked out. So we decided to take them home 
I was there for two weeks in March, and had to physically intervene when a jacked-up incoherent methhead just started bearhugging a girl I was working with. I’ve lived in places with “bad areas,” SF seems to have a low-frequency thrum of menace even in affluent neighbourhoods.
My question is how this doesn't make SF a bastion of "conservativism". Low-key but constant fear (of both violence and property crime) plus contamination/disgust (actual excrement) are supposed to get people into Survive mode. How do they miss the ongoing zombie apocalypse?
The city is failing miserably
Technically, since this seems to be their intended goal, they're succeeding magnificently. We're all just having trouble understanding why this is their intended goal.
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