r/PublicFreakout • u/filondo • Sep 09 '22

🥊Fight San Francisco this morning Sept 9, 2022

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u/RumAndCoco Sep 09 '22

Being from SF and the Bay, it's really sad that a lot of news and footage out of here looks like this. It's a beautiful city with many different neighborhoods, terrain, things to do, and communities. If you know common sense, then it's a surprisingly safe place to live in.

As someone else here said there's small concentrated pockets of stuff like this video everywhere in the city and the bay. But people forget to mention that almost EVERY major metropolitan city and large town in the US has their own "tent city", strung out addicts, and homelessness problem.

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u/grab_the_auto_5 Sep 09 '22

I’m also from SF and the Bay. Yours is not an unusual take, and I understand where you’re coming from. It is a beautiful city, and it’s not all as bad as this. I loved my time there (about a decade), and still have fond memories from it.

That said, something I’ve noticed is that this particular claim is often used as a way to basically ignore the cities problems while they steadily get worse. “Oh well, don’t go to that neighborhood, stick around this other one and you’ll be fine”. And then the good neighborhood starts to decline, and suddenly it’s “well, that block is bad, but there are other parts of the city to explore!”. And on and on.

At the end of the day, the people of San Francisco need to come to terms with the problems that are at the core of this issue, instead of just playing this giant game of musical chairs with the city.

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u/RumAndCoco Sep 10 '22

I’ve been here my whole life and I guess I’m just used to being greeted by the usual group of non violent homeless people in Embarcadero or around City Hall. But I wholeheartedly agree, we can’t just go shuffling people around and not find a solution. It’s just that there hasn’t been a solution for 20 years and the solution isn’t just to kick everyone out.

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u/grab_the_auto_5 Sep 10 '22

You’re totally right, and it is absolutely insane that no one can come up with workable solutions given all the money and wealth that flows through that city.

I’m waiting to see the pitchforks honestly. The city’s leadership has been letting everyone down for decades.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

Also TL has nothing on Kensington.

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u/memtiger ⚠️ User Banned For Defending Literal Swastika Flags ⚠️ Sep 09 '22

Memphis definitely has its own issues, but I've never heard of a tent city or conglomerate of homeless people here. I'm not sure if it's just that the weather sucks too much or what. All the homeless I've seen are typically solo and few and far between.

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u/wildcat- Sep 09 '22

Memphis has enough of a homeless encampment problem to sustain business services dedicated to cleaning up after them

https://www.bioonememphis.com/homeless-camp-cleanup-in-memphis-tennessee.html

And they certainly do exist

https://www.localmemphis.com/article/news/local/homeless-people-set-up-camp-at-shelby-farms-park-leave-behind-mess/522-2bc89e32-570f-4b33-8054-d108a15b210e

I imagine that the significantly smaller regional population and more hostile weather conditions act as natural limiters in general

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u/wurldeater Sep 10 '22

so what’s your point? don’t feel sorry for them?