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SF crime stats are a joke. Everyone already knows not to bother calling. At some point, I'm going to have to start driving everywhere and eating the $30 parking just to practice what I preach about staying safe as a lone woman.
I took this photo on my way home in Oakland about a week ago. Does this look like the wealthiest metro area in the US to you? Would you want to walk your kiddos along this street?pic.twitter.com/qyFLjDCqH1
FWIW, I disagree with the author on one point: I don't have a problem with people living/sleeping on the streets (or in their cars, for that matter) assuming they're not selling or using drugs in public, assaulting people, defecating on the street or breaking into cars or homes.
I fully believe the housed can coexist with the homeless if there are some ground rules. A good rule of thumb: what is acceptable for a small child to witness in public? The Tenderloin, currently an open-air drug market, is the SF neighborhood with the largest child population.
Lillian (4), sitting with me while I scroll by Twitter: "That's America? So dirty. *frowny face*"
Lillian is brighter than most SF career politicians, methinks
Curious. Would anything make you call it quits & leave? Or are you committed to SF forever?
I can't get into it now, but yes. I've recently discovered that someone may actively want to harm me, for reasons well beyond the rational, and it's unclear whether any local institutional protections are anything but toothless. So yes. It's something I have to think about.
Hmm. I know that block. The tenderloin and many other parts of SF are hecka scary. OTOH your photo feels representative of that part of Oakland: a dirty block but nothing to be scared of.
Definitely dirty, definitely scary at night. Had several people try to get me to get into their car as I was walking home one night, with the final man claiming I was being followed and should get in so I'd be safe. Stopped walking alone at night after that.
To the first of those- yes, actually. SF strikes me as the ultimate expression of the idea that material progress simply occurs unbidden, and therefore any particular concentration of it is Privilege to be ground down. That’s a defining belief of the upper class now, ironically.
This is better than my street in the Mission. People's trash gets picked through and turned over on a daily basis.
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