Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "Why No One is Buying Downtown San Francisco Luxury Condo's" video.
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I worked for years in the business district of San Francisco, only a couple of blocks away from the TransAmerica Pyramid, leaving just a few years ago.
If I hadn't had that experience, I'd say the horror stories of homeless everywhere, public defecation/urination, out of control street crime, etc, were wildly exaggerated.
They're not--they're accurate (and I understand from friends that conditions have gotten worse since then). The last time I ate at a sidewalk cafe in SF, a homeless man dropped his trousers and defecated a few feet from us, then turned, his trousers still down, and urinated on us. My friend's wife says she's been chased many times by homeless men who wanted to harm her, and I've witnessed that, too.
I had MANY tourists tell me that while they enjoyed parts of San Francisco, the public misbehavior of the homeless shocked them--and they said they'd never return.
Those people went home and told their family and friends about their experiences, folks. San Francisco's economy is heavily dependent on tourism, and its government is killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
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