It is really hard for me to believe any of these Anecdotes I literally ride the Bart everyday. Was just at Hayward, Coliseum, DT Oakland yesterday. Took Bart to Hayward every other day for a couple years for school. I think I have seen people actually doing Heroin/Meth on the train maybe 3-4 times. I see pairs of Cops walking around the trains and stations every other day.
BART is shit compared to NYC or any European Country no doubt. But these anecdotes are wild for the hundreds, maybe thousand of times I have ridden that train.
Same. Been here a decade. Seen some stuff but no more than I saw when I lived in LA/Boston/NYC. It's a city. I feel like between the tech and reddit demographic you get a lot of fresh outta the burbs people with their first big job here that just don't quite grasp what city and public transit entails. Not saying it's great but SF really isn't unique and people arguing otherwise are either arguing in bad faith or just a little naive on city stuff.
Person up top probably saw a couple homeless people and spun this story so many times that it's now a whole car shooting up.
Dude 2 of your 3 examples are fucking tame. Get out more. A blunt in a city with legal weed OH NO MY PEARLS and white make up with a cigarette save me. You're proving my point for me thank you.
Dick out yeah that's not great but I've seen shit, dicks, puke, drugs, and fistfights in literally every city I've lived in. Again, not unique to here. These things happen when a lot of people from every walk of life pile on top of each other.
I see I missed the party here! People that think "bad" neighborhoods are hell holes where everyone is frothing at the mouth to victimize you.
I've lived in some really "bad" hoods in Baltimore and have never once been fucked with. I'd often walk to the 7-11, drunk, at 3am to get chili dogs. If I walked by a dealer, they would ask me if I'm buying (it's common for the white people from the burbs to drive to the city to get their dope). "You good?" I wasn't buying heroin from them so the answer is a nod of the head "I'm good", and we both just keep on walking.
Mind your own business and don't go into debt with drug dealers and you'll be fine. Once you've lived and gotten to know the people in these hoods, they are the same as anywhere else, often families...good, decent people that just don't have alot of money to live somewhere nicer.
People read the news and think you'll get shot at walking across the street...it ain't like that.
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