SAN FRANCISCO: Shoplifting SKYROCKETS , Criminals Aren't Being Arrested Anymore, Stores CLOSING

[SpaceCoastVol]

It all depends where you go

Of course it does. However, the point is that when you leave a 5 star hotel in just about any city in the world you don't expect to be told "do not turn right out the front door... it's dangerous that direction". You do in SFO. I do not think I have been told that in any other city in the world where I have had a layover. Not in a broad daylight scenario at any rate.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

Have you been in the dark the last year? At some point this shiznik has influence on some's spending options.

It definitely has had an effect on mine.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

Cool! A YouTube video that tells me exactly what I expect to hear!

Does this video propose false information?

 

[Carl Pickens]

Cool! A YouTube video that tells me exactly what I expect to hear!

Maybe this will make you feel better...
Shoplifting in San Francisco is so out of control that retailers are closing stores
San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge

 

[PEPPERJAX]

There are several places that I've never visited that I have now crossed off the list due to crime and chaos. Others I've visited but wouldn't go back to. It is hard telling yourself, you may be in harms way and don't expect law enforcement to be there for you, or they are filthy and looted in many places now.

San Francisco/Oakland
Minneapolis/St Paul
New York City
Seattle
Chicago
St Louis
Los Angeles

I'm sure there are a few I'm leaving out.

Oakland is not appealing at all and sucked imo. The other cities you mentioned have some cool things to see and do.

 

[allvol123]

I've spent a good deal of time in all of these places aside from MN.

I'm going to just go out on a limb and say you either have zero spacial awareness, or are a fearful, little man.

Sounds like you went out on a limb of stupidity.

It was quite clear what he was saying and it wasnt either of your suggestions.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

Sounds like you went out on a limb of stupidity.

It was quite clear what he was saying and it wasnt either of your suggestions.

He plainly said it was because of "crime and chaos," you mentally challenged rube.

 

[allvol123]

He plainly said it was because of "crime and chaos," you mentally challenged rube.

I get it. You're the same child looking for attention that you have always been.

Keep up the good fight in defending the honor of San Fran.

 

[volfanhill]

There are several places that I've never visited that I have now crossed off the list due to crime and chaos. Others I've visited but wouldn't go back to. It is hard telling yourself, you may be in harms way and don't expect law enforcement to be there for you, or they are filthy and looted in many places now.

San Francisco/Oakland
Minneapolis/St Paul
New York City
Seattle
Chicago
St Louis
Los Angeles

I'm sure there are a few I'm leaving out.

I have been to 5 of those in the last five years. You are doing yourself a disservice.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

I get it. You're the same child looking for attention that you have always been.

Keep up the good fight in defending the honor of San Fran.

I'm just contesting the notion that those cities are one degree of separation from the discord relative to Escape from New York. I think anyone who says that is just scared of big cities in general.

You're the one that came in to white knight for your fellow mouthbreather.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

I get it. You're the same child looking for attention that you have always been.

Keep up the good fight in defending the honor of San Fran.

You have to understand Dink. He usually has to resort to sophomoric name calling. It’s his only compensating mechanism to look relevant on a message board.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

You have to understand Dink. He usually has to resort to sophomoric name calling. It’s his only compensating mechanism to look relevant on a message board.

He accused me of stupidity in his original post.

Nice try.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

I have been to 5 of those in the last five years. You are doing yourself a disservice.

San Francisco- decent. Not a great place but decent.
Chicago- pizza is good. Everything else is trash.
Seattle- beautiful scenery. City is full of idiots
New York- an utter dump
Los Angeles- an even worse dump

Never been to St Louis or Minneapolis. Are these places worth saying you have visited? I guess. Are they anything special? Absolutely not. Doing yourself a disservice by not visiting these places? Debatable.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

He accused me of stupidity in his original post.

Nice try.

Irrelevant. It’s your go to move.

 

[volfanhill]

San Francisco- decent. Not a great place but decent.
Chicago- pizza is good. Everything else is trash.
Seattle- beautiful scenery. City is full of idiots
New York- an utter dump
Los Angeles- an even worse dump

Never been to St Louis or Minneapolis. Are these places worth saying you have visited? I guess. Are they anything special? Absolutely not. Doing yourself a disservice by not visiting these places? Debatable.

If you think NYC is a dump and LA is then you are an idiot. Not to live. Hell no. To visit? They are fantastic. Find better tour guides.

 

[BigOrangeTrain]

If you think NYC is a dump and LA is then you are an idiot. Not to live. Hell no. To visit? They are fantastic. Find better tour guides.

Your opinion is noted. Both were trash in my opinion. NY did have some good food though.

 

[DinkinFlicka]

Your opinion is noted. Both were trash in my opinion. NY did have some good food though.

Which, coincidentally, happens to be trash.

Saying NY "has some good food" has to be one of the more culturally ignorant statements one can make about that city.

 

[Weezer]

Every big city has bad areas.

What's your favorite restaurant in the area?

Absolutely true, but there are also cities that are currently more volatile than they've been in the past. Among them, Chicago, Portland, and Seattle. That doesn't make these cities bad, but there has been recent upheaval in these cities that change perception, and understandably so. I don't see it as unreasonable to have concern, especially as to personal safety.

 

[FLVOL_79]

Of course it does. However, the point is that when you leave a 5 star hotel in just about any city in the world you don't expect to be told "do not turn right out the front door... it's dangerous that direction". You do in SFO. I do not think I have been told that in any other city in the world where I have had a layover. Not in a broad daylight scenario at any rate.

I was going to post exactly this. Cool town, just don't go around the block at your hotel..


Also only city I ever had to pay to unlock the bathroom in a burger King..which was also the only burger King I've been too where no one spoke English, only Chinese...and I haven't been to China.

I like visiting Cali, beautiful state. Gonna be hitting up San Diego a bunch this year for business. I see some deep sea fishing in my future.

 

[FLVOL_79]

San Francisco- decent. Not a great place but decent.
Chicago- pizza is good. Everything else is trash.
Seattle- beautiful scenery. City is full of idiots
New York- an utter dump
Los Angeles- an even worse dump

Never been to St Louis or Minneapolis. Are these places worth saying you have visited? I guess. Are they anything special? Absolutely not. Doing yourself a disservice by not visiting these places? Debatable.

Minneapolis was nice in the 80s. Now the transplants are doing their best to Mogadishu it up.

 

[Rickyvol77]

Cool! A YouTube video that tells me exactly what I expect to hear!

It’s pretty easy to research and find the facts presented are accurate

 

[allvol123]

I'm just contesting the notion that those cities are one degree of separation from the discord relative to Escape from New York. I think anyone who says that is just scared of big cities in general.

You're the one that came in to white knight for your fellow mouthbreather.

Cheers!

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Of course it does. However, the point is that when you leave a 5 star hotel in just about any city in the world you don't expect to be told "do not turn right out the front door... it's dangerous that direction". You do in SFO. I do not think I have been told that in any other city in the world where I have had a layover. Not in a broad daylight scenario at any rate.

I know it's not a 5* hotel but they will absolutely tell you not to go South if you exit the Westin in Downtown Memphis...

 

[DancingOutlaw]

I know it's not a 5* hotel but they will absolutely tell you not to go South if you exit the Westin in Downtown Memphis...

Imagine getting a hotel in downtown Memphis.

 

[USAFgolferVol]

I'm just contesting the notion that those cities are one degree of separation from the discord relative to Escape from New York. I think anyone who says that is just scared of big cities in general.

You're the one that came in to white knight for your fellow mouthbreather.

It's all about extremes for many of our posters and yes, most of them are rubes