Like Jesse Waters has ever been to one. What a dolt.

It was a nothing segment. No valuable information was said. The people on the street are different in SF than they are in NY. You can't say it defames San Francisco when its the truth.

Ah well………

driving into nyc via the lincoln tunnel, you're usually first greeted by a window washer. with bad breath. its a bigger city that developed with less land constraints, so neighborhoods are more clearly delineated.

everything in sf is cozier, so for that to work, it mandates tolerance. not enabling. i agree with you that there's a huge difference. but compassion doesn't equate with enabling.

Of course when you talk about “San Francisco values,” no one mentions these things.

That said, the griminess and homeless wore me down after living in SF for a year (especially after talking to many of them and finding out that most had a place to stay). I had no reason to stay, so I went back to LA. I would like to live there again, but only if I can afford a place with a parking spot for a car (I did the car-less thing, and it was ok for a while, but ultimately I need a car of my own to go places occasionally… zipcar didn't quite cut it).

Compassion is a good thing, and enabling is its dark side. You will find this in all aspects of life, that broad-based compassion can cause problems (as compared with targeted compassion). Let that thought sit on ya for a while….

there's two differences: san francisco has a temperate climate (life on the streets is much harder in nyc, so it's not a fair comparison) and people are more compassionate in SF (and that's not a bad thing).

this is just an angled piece of propaganda. scared to go out in the precideo? come on. why didn't they interview people in nob hill or pac heights? yes, SF has lots of little neighborhoods, rich and poor, that border each other. overall, that's probably a good thing–given the fact that people need some sort of model on how to live together in this world. sf does a pretty great job of that.