[EdwardDiego]

I'm not surprised, there's a lot more inequality in the US than in Switzerland.

Only point I was trying to make is that this statement is reductio ad absurdum:

> Funny how people try so hard to show/prove/argue that SF is safe. If it was, these discussions wouldn’t exist.

Given the significant overlap between "people who live in or near SF because they work in tech, with a strong history of startups" and "people who discuss things on HN, a website about tech, with a strong history of startups", it's entirely unsurprising that people would discuss SF crime rates on HN, and the fact that they do so can't be construed as any form of evidence for any position.

Sigh, I'm not even trying to affirm or deny anything about SF, I've only been there once, met some lovely homeless people, and some very unwell ones.

[ben_w]

That's fair.

I've been to SF a few times, though most recently in 2018 and I don't know the place well enough to name the districts without Google helping.

[EdwardDiego]

My only time there, in town for some fancy proprietary DB training, the only accommodation I could get (due to a Salesforce conference) was right beside the Tenderloin. That was an experience.