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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Well, yeah, but you didn't address my earlier post about encountering the guy with his head half-wrapped in packing tape.
I also saw a guy in a street fight with a can of soda. I'm talking a real fight. Throwing punches at it and kicking it.
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LOL...yeah, SF has its fair share of crazies. Part of the problem with temperate year round weather is that it is an easy spot for homeless to settle down, and the City certainly supports that population with social services. The scuttlebutt is that cities like Salt Lake often will round up the homeless/drug addled offenders and give them a one way ticket to SF to make it SF's problem, not theirs.
That said, most of the crazies are confined to certain areas and if you avoid those areas you'll almost never encounter them. The Tenderloin, for example, is a transitional neighborhood that you mostly want to avoid. There are few speakeasy joints there that are fun, but your likelihood of running up against an unsavory character are exponentially higher there than in most neighborhoods in the City. Overall, it's violent crime rates are fairly low for a major city. The two major problems I see there are: (1) homeless people sleeping everywhere; and (2) property theft (the number of car breakins is ridiculous.