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Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by x-complexity on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:37AM (#35451543)
> > > Since I moved here, I have sen people break into cars (numerous times), fill suitcases with products from Target and Walgreens and leave without paying, casually smoke meth in a crowded bus, empty their bladder and bowels in the middle of the sidewalk, etc. all of this brazenly and in broad daylight.

> 15 years in and no one in my family has been a victim to any crime.

The reason provided above is as anecdotal as the one provided by GGP, and cannot be solely used to build any arguments/conclusions from.

There's also an axiomatic conflict between this & GP: The general neighborhoods that glerk and random314 live in may not be the same neighborhoods, resulting in the conflicting self-reports written above. It is possible that random314 lives in one of the nicer neighborhoods that glerk mentions offhandedly, and unless shown otherwise, has not been to FiDi or SOMA:

> > > I think a lot of people live in their nice neighborhood bubble and have never stepped foot in FiDi or SOMA.

Re:Bob Lee, Former CTO Square, Creator of CashApp, Stabbed t... by random314 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:45AM (#35465857)
I live in south bay, the original silicon valley. The bay area is home to 7M+ population, it isn't just tenderloin.