Is San Francisco really 50/50 Wealthy and Crackheads?

[President_Obama]

I don't see any difference between a "crackhead" and someone on an anti-depressant script, both are medicating.
If this version of Capitalism is allowed to continue on its current trajectory, we'll all be homeless soon enough.

[Joe T.]

My original concern was with the unpredictable, sometimes violent moods of addicts and other shiftless hustlers. Now I am additionally wondering whether the residents who avoid confrontation with them can ethically claim citizenship.
If a cockroach enters my home, I kill it, not fearfully poke and startle it until it leaves to pester my neighbor. Is this such an evil way to maintain one's home? One's neighborhood or town?
San Franciscans seem to tolerate this, and that is my only qualm in spending my precious vacation time in their city.

Lets just round em all up and throw em into a river! The homeless are vermin! If you don't agree you can get out of my country, losers! The gays, foreigners, and minorities are next, right!?!

[CStarFlare]

My original concern was with the unpredictable, sometimes violent moods of addicts and other shiftless hustlers. Now I am additionally wondering whether the residents who avoid confrontation with them can ethically claim citizenship.

Yes.

Fuck.

[Skykid]

My original concern was with the unpredictable, sometimes violent moods of addicts and other shiftless hustlers. Now I am additionally wondering whether the residents who avoid confrontation with them can ethically claim citizenship.
If a cockroach enters my home, I kill it, not fearfully poke and startle it until it leaves to pester my neighbor. Is this such an evil way to maintain one's home? One's neighborhood or town?
San Franciscans seem to tolerate this, and that is my only qualm in spending my precious vacation time in their city.

This kind of mentality is prevalent in the US, and precisely why you shouldn't have access to firearms. There's a really ingrained cultural staple of "what's mine is mine, including my personal space. Invade it and die."

[mosey]

I think I have changed my mind. I'd much rather give money to a jesting junkie than to a sober beggar. Quid pro quo, dude.

[President_Obama]

I love guns, give them all to me.

[brentsg]

I only made one trip to San Francisco and I definitely recall the homeless folks. It's odd that it stuck with me after so many years, so they must have been fairly plentiful. I managed not to shoot any of them though so they must not have invaded my personal space.

[President_Obama]

I lived in DC for a while and I remember the homeless people there were particularly hostile, which is unfortunate since it's hard to be sympathetic with someone who's going fucking mental at you for no reason.

[Never_Scurred]

I only made one trip to San Francisco and I definitely recall the homeless folks.

How does it compare to our hometown?

[brentsg]

I only made one trip to San Francisco and I definitely recall the homeless folks.

How does it compare to our hometown?

I honestly just get around Scottrade Center for the most part, so I'm down around Market and such. I probably don't have a good handle on the locals as a result. The people I do encounter that want money and such are likely folks that live in the crummy apartments around that area.

My location is mostly bullshit. It should read 30 miles west of st louis.

[gct]

I'd be more concerned about ... being hit on by gay men.

I don't know. It's kind of nice to think that somebody thinks you're moderately attractive, rather than being universally considered repulsive. And bear in mind gay men can have pretty high standards for appearance. If it happens, consider it a compliment.

(Yes it did happen to me once - no I did not go for it)

[Acid King]

Sometimes, you can have everything going right, appearances good on the outside, but still get fucked up because...you just need that extra satisfaction. I don't know how it is is SF, but around here, most fiends on that work have regular jobs and shit. Hell, one of the supervisors at my old job was caught up suckin' that glass dick and dude makes $40k a year showing up like it ain't nothing.

The majority of crack smokers aren't fiends or addicts. I don't know why you seem so surprised. Cocaine isn't some magic drug that instantly turns you homeless.

[Never_Scurred]

Sometimes, you can have everything going right, appearances good on the outside, but still get fucked up because...you just need that extra satisfaction. I don't know how it is is SF, but around here, most fiends on that work have regular jobs and shit. Hell, one of the supervisors at my old job was caught up suckin' that glass dick and dude makes $40k a year showing up like it ain't nothing.

The majority of crack smokers aren't fiends or addicts. I don't know why you seem so surprised. Cocaine isn't some magic drug that instantly turns you homeless.

Thats what I was saying, most the druggies I know aren't homeless bums, just regular folks that like to get fucked up. I don't know how you came to think I seemed "surprised" in my original post.

[mosey]

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Thats what I was saying, most the druggies I know aren't homeless bums, just regular folks that like to get fucked up. I don't know how you came to think I seemed "surprised" in my original post.[/quote]

It is those who cannot hold together a regular living and a roof over their head which in the OP I worried about. Now though, after reading all of the feedback, SF seems just as decrepit as NYC, where my efforts were backed by the locals at least.