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73 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 3h \ parent \ on: How safe do you feel in America? AskSN
Fair.
My understanding is that theft below something like $500 was basically not being enforced anymore as a matter of policy.
True. I visited SF in 2020 and recently. It has improved dramatically. I still think their policies are nuts but they hopefully already hit bottom.
Oakland is still a hell hole. It wasn't always this bad.
I don't cheer for the fall of these places as some do. That's poisonous thinking to me.
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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 3h
I was in San Francisco back during the Bush years and loved it. When I went back more than a decade later, it was definitely a lot sketchier and dirtier. Berkley was still beautiful, though, although I've heard that it went way downhill.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 3h
I have spent a lot of time in the Bay area and SF and Berkeley specifically. Berkeley and SF went way downhill before Covid.
Some areas in SF are bouncing back but a lot was lost.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 3h
That squares with my experience. It makes me sad to think of Berkley declining.
I doubt I'd ever have chosen to live there, or been able to afford it, but I've never found a city as appealing.
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