Tourists Inwards San Francisco: I'm Non Coming Back

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

'Am I inwards the bad component subdivision of town?' Tourists shocked past times what they run into on San Francisco streets

It's something many San Franciscans run into on a daily basis, exterior their homes or offices in addition to during their commutes. For improve or for worse, locals are used to walking past times offense scenes, have seen open injection drug use, in addition to stimulate got witnessed mental wellness episodes firsthand.

But when a tourist lands at SFO, guidebook inwards hand, that reality tin ship away hold out shocking.

"Is this normal or am I inwards a 'bad component subdivision of town?' Just walked past times numerous homeless off their faces, screaming in addition to running all over the sidewalk close Twitter HQ in addition to therefore a murder scene. Wife is scared to exit hotel now," wrote an Australian Reddit user Wednesday.

That mortal isn't alone. On Sunday, some other tourist from Canada asked the San Francisco Reddit community, "Why is this urban centre therefore terrifying?"

"I'd been at that topographic point for in all likelihood less than a day, only wandering around the center, in addition to already seen to a greater extent than than plenty poverty in addition to suffering to campaign me wanting to exit desperately," wrote some other visitor from London in 2017. "I saw many people talking to themselves, or to things that weren't there. Even inwards a Macy's, in addition to at that topographic point weren't whatsoever police line officers to assist them or create anything nearly it."

Anyone who has hosted friends or menage unit of measurement from out of town may stimulate got had to plain like questions.
Just those 3 Reddit posts garnered to a greater extent than than 650 comments, many of which were helpful suggestions (other neighborhoods to explore, security tips, in addition to more).

But the city's ain visitors' bureau is struggling to come upward up amongst a goodness explanation for horrified tourists....MORE

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Huh, same 'ol, same 'ol.

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San Francisco: "UN adept decries homeless weather inwards Bay Area equally ‘cruel,’ ‘unacceptable’"
You may stimulate got seen the story.
The UN's especial rapporteur on Adequate Housing has been jet-setting around, United Mexican US City, Mumbai, S.F., documenting what she sees:

“In United Mexican US City, I visited a low-income village that had been moved past times the urban centre onto empty province close a railway line,” [Farha] said. “They had no running water. They stole electricity.” The military camp was noisy in addition to dangerous. She noted that the military camp inwards United Mexican US is virtually identical to those she visited inwards Oakland, including the Wood Street in addition to 23rd Avenue encampments....

The to a higher identify snip is from the San Francisco's Dirty Little Secret
And ane time again inwards November's "Elaine Would Prefer That Amazon Not Move to San Francisco (AMZN)".

As I noted the first fourth dimension nosotros linked to the Curbed headliner:

It's a deliberate policy determination past times the municipal in addition to county government. More on that indicate adjacent month....

Still non laid upward to create that but I sentiment nosotros should update amongst the nod to Curbed. And earlier:

Bonhams Auctioneers Has Allegedly Installed Sprinklers To Douse Homeless Outside the Building
It seems they got the sentiment from the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Now, the auctioneers may intend they are offering the homeless a cool, refreshing shower but man child the optics are bad.

From Curbed San Francisco:   
SF Luxury Auction House Allegedly Turns Sprinklers on Homeless [Update] 

...Using a sprinkler organization to take away homeless people from structures is non a novel idea. In 2015, the San Francisco Roman Catholic Archdiocese got into hot H2O later it was discovered that they were using sprinklers to regularly douse people camping ground overnight inwards the doorways of St. Mary’s Cathedral.... 

When youv'e lost the Catholics...