I visited in 2017 and it was great, sure there are homeless people but they didnāt bother me. I donāt understand why people get so uncomfortable around homeless.
Eh maybe, I go to big cities fairly frequently, thereās homeless people in all of them. Some of them are even aggressive panhandlers but none of them have ever been dangerous. A simple no thank you gets rid of them.
Ever since the beginning of the pandemic homelessness has gotten a LOT worse.
Encountering a single homeless person never bothered me. But if you see dozens of people or entire encampments it can be very offputting for sure. Especially since drug use has gotten much worse on account of the fentanyl crisis.
An organization of graffiti artists. If you are offended by āgraffitiā and not by āstreet muralsā I donāt know what to tell you. It makes sense that youāre offended by homeless people and not other people now though.
They smell bad, that's one of the many reasons they're uncomfortable around homeless people. I work at a library where it's accessible to everyone. A library is one of those places (so called "third place") where you're not expected to spend anything.
When we're busy at the library, we don't really notice patrons walking through the door. But we have this particular customer that we just know because the smell just wafts over your nose. You don't even have to breathe hard, we just know who it is and the smell just lingers --- the kind of smell that's headache-inducing unless you get out of there.
Now, it's summer and hot. We do have AC in the building but god forbid the AC dies, I just know the library will be muggy and the smell will stay there longer.
So I would agree that homeless people can cause issues in some places like libraries, etc that they like to hang around in. I was more talking about tourist that only have to walk by them or deal with panhandlers which isnāt a big deal. Yeah if a bunch of homeless are living in the library, thatās more than a small annoyance but not something that most tourists have to deal with.
You notice how there is never anyone who lives in SF ranting about how bad it is? That's because it isn't as much as a problem as much as it is shocking for people who are not from large cities.
You weren't lucky. The city is fine. All the mouth breathers that whine about the problems that sf has more than likely live in a small garbage town with higher per capita crime than sf has. The people are just too stupid to understand what per capita is and that a city with 800k ppl and 100 murders (or insert type of crime here) is safer than a city with an 80k population and 12 murders.
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u/Different-Sympathy-4 Jul 11 '23
Visited last year, I must have got lucky and avoided those bits. The only homeless/mentally ill person I saw was a naked lady outside Starbucks.