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Old 08-29-06, 01:10 AM
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man, in corvallis you can literally watch the mercury getting dumped into the river from a factory. totally ****ed.
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san francisco is the first place i saw 2 gay homless dudes fuc&ing on the street, and how they use latex gloves as toilet paper. livin...
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I lived in SF for 5 years. Its good and bad i guess. I was mostly living out in the Richmond district. Pretty mellow were i was but then again there was a chinese-gang shoot out on my street. One kid died across from my door. They didnt find out who he was because he was an illegal from China. ****ing wierd.
Living in Tokyo now..the land of ZERO crime. Very different. You dont really even need to lock your bike in most areas. No one would even think of stealing it.
Probably moving back to the bay area next year though. Gotta buy a gun.
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Originally Posted by mikorp
san francisco is the first place i saw 2 gay homless dudes fuc&ing on the street, and how they use latex gloves as toilet paper. livin...
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Sheesh, people have a pretty low tolerance to skeez here! I'll admit SF has its seriously sketchy parts, but they're primarily sketchy if you are sketchy. Do you deal bunk drugs, owe drug dealers scads of money, or participate in ill-conceiled drive-by shootings in Hunter's Point? If you answered no to the above, you have *very* little to worry about.

That's not to say folks don't get jumped on occasion in the t-loin, but I'd say it's no worse than the troubled parts of NYC or LA. I think the main thing that makes it a little hard to take is that there is no bifurcation of the bad and good parts of town. Like folks are saying, there are hard streets and boutiques within half a block of one another. Just gotta stay a little cognizant, or, really, DON'T. I have lived in and around SF for years and have never had a real issue with anybody.

SF has SO much going on culturewise, funwise, foodwise, artwise, musicwise, etcwise that it's pretty hard to stay focussed on ****-covered hunks of newspaper in the gutter.

That said, for a city with a sky-high cost of living, SF is not terribly clean and not always well-kept. When I take trips to Portland or Seattle I almost feel like I'm visiting some kind of model city that nobody lives in yet. Where's the trash? Where's the puke?

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Originally Posted by mikorp
san francisco is the first place i saw 2 gay homless dudes fuc&ing on the street, and how they use latex gloves as toilet paper. livin...
the first place? so there have been others?
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I went to SF, stayed on top of the hill on Gerry ST. Went down to the wharf, sony center, Downtown, Japan Town, etc...

SF is amazing. Truly a fantastic city.

That said, I saw a guy get his face slapped off in front of the Hustler Club...ummm I think it's called Flint's, but anyway, it was in San Francisco. Upside? I saw it all from huge leaded windows on the second floor of an old pub. Only in California.
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What freaks me out about the tenderloin is that all of the residential hotels have 10pm (or 11pm?) curfews. So you're walking through there at 8pm and it feels like you are in the most densely packed sketchiness/hotbed of tweakerdom in the western hemisphere, but if you roll through after 10 it is completely deserted, which makes it even creepier.

The only time I ever felt genuinely unsafe in SF was riding the bus.

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Originally Posted by deathhare
I lived in SF for 5 years. Its good and bad i guess. I was mostly living out in the Richmond district. Pretty mellow were i was but then again there was a chinese-gang shoot out on my street. One kid died across from my door. They didnt find out who he was because he was an illegal from China. ****ing wierd.
Living in Tokyo now..the land of ZERO crime. Very different. You dont really even need to lock your bike in most areas. No one would even think of stealing it.
Probably moving back to the bay area next year though. Gotta buy a gun.

damn, Tokyo is nice? i have an opportunity to go there in a few months but kinda blew my budget on this trip so probably can't go. sucks...

i honestly do think i'm done with SF for quite some time now. been there 3 times in the past 16 months, there's other places to visit.
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Originally Posted by digitalia
damn, Tokyo is nice?
Tokyo rules man...ive been here about 2 years. Yes, you blew it.
You should try to make it.
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Old 08-29-06, 04:22 PM
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SF

some of it's pretty bad, but there's more good and it's the best.

https://tenderloin.net/04302003/
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haha judah you're the best.
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All I know is that in the summer I spent there, the bum olympics were taking place. Everyweek my buddy would get a phone call with me saying, "I just saw the craziest thing I've ever seen, ever. Somehow this guy outdid the guy from last week!".


I guess competition brings out the best in people.
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Old 08-29-06, 05:37 PM
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I was sitting in front of my friend's place waiting for him and drinking a beer the other day and watched no less than 3 dudes piss in the same place, completely seperate incidents, within like 10 minutes. 2pm, 17th and valencia, haha...
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Man, this thread is great.
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Old 08-29-06, 06:14 PM
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bums are crazy, and all the tourists here want to give them money, which shows that being crazy is working.

I'm going to work now...
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Originally Posted by Judah
SF

some of it's pretty bad, but there's more good and it's the best.

https://tenderloin.net/04302003/
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bwahahaa, that's classic!

btw, never had an "incident" in 6 years living in SF... most of the time in the Lower Haight.
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Judah do not lie. You haven't worked in years. Unless you count panhandling.
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judah works the street.
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Originally Posted by edub
bwahahaa, that's classic!

btw, never had an "incident" in 6 years living in SF... most of the time in the Lower Haight.
yeah i lived in lower haight for 2 years...not one incident.its fine until you cross fillmore.anytime you ever heard about anything happening its like....."let me guess in front of the top" (the top-now the underground -is a sh*tty bar just past haight & fillmore)

SF is great for random skechy incidents..but as far as real violence? i grew up in philly and comparitively...ive never felt unsafe here.there are sketchy neighborhoods in SF.there are/were dangerous neighborhoods in philly.
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im pretty sure the only reason digitalia got jumped is cuz hes canadian. and everyone knows canadians sweat fear.

hey spence - time to edit your signature, i think....
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im pretty sure the only reason digitalia got jumped is cuz hes canadian. and everyone knows canadians sweat fear.
now i sweat HATE

cheering up more by the second cause my WANGSTER arrived today!!!!!

pics of this poser later....
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Originally Posted by spencer
i grew up in philly and comparitively...ive never felt unsafe here.there are sketchy neighborhoods in SF.there are/were dangerous neighborhoods in philly.
+1 except replace Philly w/ Brooklyn.
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I've lived in Oakland since January and have been biking SF and Oakland since then and have never had a problem with anything. As long as you don't try to get involved with the dealers next door, I guess the sketchiness won't really be an issue.
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