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Do you like hyper-aggressive homeless people? Do you like camps of people sleeping in the streets everywhere? Do you like to see people urinating and defecating in public? Do you like seeing addicts shooting drugs in public? Do you like stepping over used hypodermic needles? If you answered no to any of these questions, then go to San Diego. It blows away San Francisco.

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Do you like hyper-aggressive homeless people?

Do you like camps of people sleeping in the streets everywhere?

Do you like to see people urinating and defecating in public?

Do you like seeing addicts shooting drugs in public?

Do you like stepping over used hypodermic needles?

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I love it. Have you ever been to Louisiana? If not, you shouldn't make a broad generalization like you did. If you have, I would love to hear exactly what freaks you encountered, and describe the dumps you've seen.

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Dude, after your post you are really going to say this?

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San Francisco's visitor's bureau head is begging city officials to clean up the streets, which are allegedly rampant with vagrants and unclean conditions. The president of SF Travel, Joe D'Alessandro, says he is greeted everyday by drug users openly shooting up o and their leftover paraphernalia, human excrement, homelessness, and more. 'The streets are filthy. There's trash everywhere. It's disgusting,' D'Alessandro told the San Francisco Chronicle. 'I've never seen any other city like this - the homelessness, dirty streets, drug use on the streets, smash-and-grabs.

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Kevin Carroll, executive director of the Hotel Council, which represents 110 hotels, told the Chronicle: 'People say: "I love your city, I love your restaurants, but I'll never come back".'

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D'Alessandro said he's heard complaints from convention organizers as well about the conditions of San Francisco streets to the pointing of not listing the city on their tour list. Organizations that hold events in the city, including the California Dental Association and the National Automobile Dealers Association, wrote a letter in 2015 to late mayor Ed Lee about the state of the streets, reported The Chronicle. The letter talked about gritty scenes on the streets of San Francisco including human feces and harassment by mentally ill people and drug users. It went on to say that if the situation didn't improve, 'your city will see that citywide conventions will not rebook San Francisco and will choose other cleaner and safer West Coast destinations.'

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Over a period of years, San Francisco has earned a reputation for being one of the most tolerantly liberal cities in the United States. But now, residents there may have hit their limit for compassion after homeless tent camps, feces, and trash litter the streets and a new interim mayor has vowed to do something about it.

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"The trash, our homeless, the needles, the drug abuse on our streets, I've seen it all in our city and it's gotten to the point where we need to really change course," Farrell said in an interview with the AP. "We've gone away from just being compassionate to enabling street behavior and that, in my opinion, is a shift that's unacceptable."

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Farrell says the squalor seen on San Francisco's streets has gotten out of control and that residents should feel safe while using the city's sidewalks. One video shot by a San Francisco resident has been grabbing a lot of attention lately. Shannon Gafford documented his trip to work through one of the busiest BART stations in the Bay Area. In the video, you can see drug users blatantly shooting up out in the open, while commuters walk by, while others lay on the ground, slumped to one side.

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How dirty is San Francisco? An NBC Bay Area Investigation reveals a dangerous mix of drug needles, garbage, and feces throughout downtown San Francisco. The Investigative Unit surveyed 153 blocks of the city – the more than 20-mile stretch includes popular tourist spots like Union Square and major hotel chains. The area – bordered by Van Ness Avenue, Market Street, Post Street and Grant Avenue – is also home to City Hall, schools, playgrounds, and a police station.

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Based on the findings of the Investigative Unit survey, Riley believes parts of the city may be even dirtier than slums in some developing countries. “The contamination is … much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India,” he said. He notes that in those countries, slum dwellings are often long-term homes for families and so there is an attempt to make the surroundings more livable. Homeless communities in San Francisco, however, are often kicked out from one part of town and forced to relocate to another. The result is extreme contamination, according to Riley.

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“Unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable,” said Supervisor Hillary Ronen. “We're losing tourists. We're losing conventions in San Francisco. All of this is happening because we aren't addressing the root cause, which is we need more temporary beds for street homelessness.” Ronen believes San Francisco has been too focused on permanent housing for the homeless and that the city has neglected to provide enough temporary shelter, which can provide the homeless a respite from the streets. The city currently has about 2,000 temporary beds. Ronen, however, believes an additional 1,000 are needed, at a cost of about $25 million.

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Seems like the head of tourism and residents kid of agree.......

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Have you ever been to Louisiana?

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If not, you shouldn't make a broad generalization like you did.

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I would love to hear exactly what freaks you encountered, and describe the dumps you've seen.

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I've lived in Pennsylvania and California

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New Orleans .....

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it's my favorite place

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And who the hell lives in Montana anyway?

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She didn't see any of the other stuff

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