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I have never had any encounters with shit on the streets of SF. Now granted, I haven't worked in the city in almost a decade, but this reputation it seems to have is nothing new.
I think if SF business owners weren't so fuckin' stingy about people using their restrooms then the people who can't afford to buy something at the grossly inflated SF prices just for the privilege of accessing a sanitary place to relieve themselves in privacy that the rest of us take for granted each day would be a lot less likely to shit or piss on the streets.
I remember waiting for the train after a night of particularly heavy drinking, and it was a 20+ minute wait for the next BART train, and I was already doing the pee dance on the platform. I knew I wasn't going to make it to the south bay before my bladder exploded. Station restrooms were already locked (even though trains were still running), so I went out to Market street and entered a nearby McDonalds. Asked to use their restroom, said I would buy something from their menu if necessary. Nope, they refused. I wasn't about to pee my pants, so you know what I did? I went and I pissed on the street right in front of their front doors. Problem solved.
If you leave people no possible way to do something "correctly", don't be surprised if they start doing it incorrectly on purpose.
Why not just use the poop map?
I'm glad you like your city, but I'll be over here, not living somewhere I need a dedicated two person system to avoid walking through human feces.
It's kind of amazing just how much that simply isn't a problem in so very much of the world, and how adaptable people are to bad situations.
I've never been to SF, but we just moved to NorCal earlier this year and I'm SO stoked to visit. I absolutely believe that there's a homeless issue there because I've been to major metropolitan areas before: Houston, Baltimore, Vegas, Paris, Tokyo, etc etc etc but I simply do NOT buy into the hype of there just being endless amounts of human shit and discarded needles in the streets.
In my head, I have it built up as this glamorous place with good food and pretty bay views with the huge hills and colorful houses and streetcars.
Honestly I think I want to spend my birthday there in March, and I'm pretty excited. Any and all bar/museum/restaurant/atlas obscura oddity recc's welcome from locals/people who have been are welcome!
Where are you living?? I've walked through the TL and a bunch of other supposedly "bad" areas of SF without having that problem..
Clearly you've never been to Columbus, Ohio
I've never seen human shit on the street there. The homeless can't afford to live there anymore and live in Lancaster these days
I've spent vastly more time in SF than Columbus, yet I've seen more homeless ass and street shit in the latter.
Listen I've never been to California, I don't really believe all the stories of people shitting in the street there, but I've spent years in Columbus and I really don't believe stories of people shitting in the street there
A lot of these stories are about a few dense blocks in the core of downtown areas that either have homeless services nearby or are tourist areas where you can panhandle succesfully. This leads to a concentration of desperate people, who do desperate things.
No city has hundreds of streets and thousands of blocks just full of human shit. It happens in high traffic/high visibiilty areas due to poverty, the lack of accesable public bathrooms and drug use in the US, and even then, is minimal. Social media and right wing hysteria pump up minimal issues into quipy mania.
I was watching people undress and relieve themselves on the sidewalk in August over on State Street.
They shit in the subways actually, or on the escalators. Seen a log right by a pillar when going down the escalator,
Fogarty was from the East Bay so he's the perfect guy to be sledging SF too. Love it.
Somewhat related, if for the other side of the country....
We went on a US trip in between Trump presidencies, and my wife and I's first reaction to getting out of the taxi in NYC was: Why does it smell like piss?
In the 6 block walk to the hotel our question was answered multiple times by people pissing in the street, the gutter, and the alleyways.
tl;dr - NYC smells like piss because of all the piss
New Yorker here, yep.
City of a thousand sights... And smells.
Smell of piss aside, I'm tempted to go back... if only for these garlic knot things from Carnigie Pizza

They are like garlic.rar or some sort of garlic tardis or something because I swear there was more garlic inside these things than their outside dimension allowed for. I am legitimately drooling like pavlovs dogs right now. Please send help, or better yet several dozen garlic knots.
Aren't there cameras everywhere nowadays? Why are these people not in jail? Seems weird for the city that made broken windows theory popular(or any city really).
At least it's not some piss sponge like the Moscow metro.
Tf? The Moscow Metro is rather clean.
Not to get political, but Moscow piss sponge is what the Russians call Trump.
"Not to get political, but...* (Gets fucking political anyway)
Is this the new "I'm not racist, but...?"
Pereonally, I've never seen shit on the street in SF. But I'm only ever in, like, two parts of the city. The wharf, and downtown.
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