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by reducesuffering 1261 days ago
In 30 years of being around SF, this is really only accurate of Tenderloin, Civic Center, SOMA, Market and Mission St, roughly 10% of SF. Almost every time someone complains about SF, they're describing their experience in SOMA or near BART.
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mgraczyk 1261 days ago
I don't think so, and even if that were the case you've described the locations where a huge portion of SFs population lives.

I currently live in Haight, it's nearly just as bad as those you listed. I'm on Divisidero right now, there is poo everywhere and I can see needles in some gutters nearby.

The areas where there are only single family homes are fairly clean, but anywhere people actually go when they leave their homes is filthy.

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verteu 1261 days ago
Much more than 10% of SF by population -- those neighborhoods are where the most people live: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/vtoqd7/oc_san...
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inferiorhuman 1261 days ago 

  In 30 years of being around SF, this is really only accurate of Tenderloin,
  Civic Center, SOMA, Market and Mission St, roughly 10% of SF
Most of San Francisco has been pretty rough for most of its history. The Haight has struggled with being a destination for street kids for going on fifty years. Vis Valley? Probably the most infamous projects west of the Mississippi. Chinatown? That's pretty much always been tenement housing and the sort of grunge that you get with that many people essentially living on top of each other.
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