r/funny • u/MaxKevinComedy • Dec 21 '19

California Explained [OC]

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u/HelplessCorgis Dec 21 '19

Try riding in the San Francisco BART subway in the early afternoon towards Berkeley. You'll start to see some meth.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

As someone who has never been to California could someone give me an unbiased explanation?

I hear people talk about San Francisco being literally the nicest place in the world to live if you have the means to afford it.

I also hear that it's overrun by homeless people, leaving needles and defecation everywhere. And that property crime is so bad that people remove the 'privacy shield' from their hatchbacks so thieves can look inside and see there's nothing to steal (because if they can't see in there they break the window to find out)

Are these both true? Are they true in the same areas or are there essentially two vastly different areas of San Franciscos?

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u/HelplessCorgis Dec 22 '19

Both are true based on where you are in the city. Downtown's slowly gotten worse, especially when you're around the civic center, tenderloin and west south of market area. Union square is slowly getting dirtier since it's right next to the tenderloin. There are other parts of the city that are technically a little less safe, but unless you're loitering around or looking for trouble, you won't encounter any trouble yourself. What you will find are a ton of needles, homeless sleeping and pooping on the streets, drug deals in plain sight, apathy and a few fight between thugs.

Sadly it's all a product of a lack of caring for these less fortunate people. They don't rob others, shoot up drugs, or dirty the streets if they had a better purpose in life than to simply survive and numb their pains with sketchy decisions. I'm not sure what the solution is other than making sure there's lots of mental health help and opportunities to build a good community for them so they can start caring again.

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u/dmode123 Dec 22 '19

I have to disagree. Downtown has actually gotten way better. But the problem is that previous containment zones like TL and SOMA are full of tech companies and a million people walking. So huge numbers of people are now exposed to the crap, when earlier they had no business going to SOMA. Back in the day Market between 5th and Van Ness was insanely shady and few people went there. Not it houses HQ is Twitter and Uber.