that guy on the left looks pretty bummed out by it
He thinks he's in the line.
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Does America have a street poop problem?
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He thinks he's in the line.
milkham
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I live in NYC and haven't encountered obviously human poop since the late 90s. It was one of my neighbors for sure. (maybe i'm just de-sensitized)
Regarding public toilets, there used to be one on Chambers st, actually i'm not sure if it's still there but you had to pay to use it.
Finding a toilet even as a non-homeless person can be difficult. You'd think at the very least every Starbucks would have a bathroom you can use but try that in Chinatown...
I've spent many a train ride back to brooklyn sweating and white knuckling the hand rails wondering if I'll make it home in time. I had to get off the train once, praying there would be a toilet nearby, and an mta employee told me that there was actually a public restroom in that particular station, I thought I was saved only to find 3 people of varying degrees of homelessness in front of me in line for it. I waited it out only to find of course there was no toilet paper or paper towels.
I guess it's a sign of getting older when your "need to poop" stories start to outnumber your "need to vomit" stories.
Regarding public toilets, there used to be one on Chambers st, actually i'm not sure if it's still there but you had to pay to use it.
Finding a toilet even as a non-homeless person can be difficult. You'd think at the very least every Starbucks would have a bathroom you can use but try that in Chinatown...
I've spent many a train ride back to brooklyn sweating and white knuckling the hand rails wondering if I'll make it home in time. I had to get off the train once, praying there would be a toilet nearby, and an mta employee told me that there was actually a public restroom in that particular station, I thought I was saved only to find 3 people of varying degrees of homelessness in front of me in line for it. I waited it out only to find of course there was no toilet paper or paper towels.
I guess it's a sign of getting older when your "need to poop" stories start to outnumber your "need to vomit" stories.
Yup you can have a steady income but no home because the first barrier is too high. Housing is a lot about starting capital.
Good example is how paying a mortgage may be cheaper and better in the long term than renting. The big problem however is getting that first mortgage for that first house. Not having the capacity to do those sound investments is what can keep people stuck in a bad situation.
First thing people try to do in the 3rd world is try to build a family home brick by brick for that reason.
andrerobot
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#SILICONVALLEYPROBLEMS
old manatee
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I saw tons of human shit on the sidewalks in San Francisco. There are many, many homeless people and the city goes out of their way to not provide public restrooms, such as BART closing their restrooms after 9/11 and then refusing to ever reopen them. Waste needs to be evacuated. It's a pretty simple fact of life if you are a human being.
macfoshizzle
Member
Funny thing is I'm taking a shit right now while reading this.
I work in San Francisco downtown and I've seen what appeared to be smeared shit at certain parts of the city. Haven't seen a pile yet. I also try to stay away from the tenderloin as well. But sometimes I drive through them and it's like I'm back playing Left 4 Dead. The crack addicts and homeless look like zombies and they just cross the street without looking. It's pretty bad.
I work in San Francisco downtown and I've seen what appeared to be smeared shit at certain parts of the city. Haven't seen a pile yet. I also try to stay away from the tenderloin as well. But sometimes I drive through them and it's like I'm back playing Left 4 Dead. The crack addicts and homeless look like zombies and they just cross the street without looking. It's pretty bad.
that explains it.
CherryWoodFuton
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Don't go to Tenderloin.
You might see it in Mission but the tourist spots don't really have 💩
GhostWriter24
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LA and SF have so many homeless it's ridiculous. And yes, in the more densely populated areas, there is shit on the streets.
Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
I don't know how much I'm contributing to the discussion here, but I lived in a decent area for many years and would come home to Human shit in my parking area quite often. Not a good time
To clarify, it was a covered, reserved parking area next to my apartment complex
To clarify, it was a covered, reserved parking area next to my apartment complex
SF has some of the highest cost of living in the nation because you have a whole bunch of people trying to live in a place that refuses to build vertically. Everybody is crammed in like sardines into buildings that can't be built higher than 40 feet because of zoning regulations. So you get skyrocketing prices for rent and housing.
NotMuhSuperman
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You'd have skyrocketing prices regardless of regulations
Kurt Angle
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must be a west coast thing
never seen it in the east coast. We are civilized
never seen it in the east coast. We are civilized
The regulations make the problem worse than it would be otherwise.
thepenguin55
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Yeah, the GB guys (who I love) will talk about what a fucking disgusting wasteland modern SF is and then have the gull to say shit along the lines of at least it's not LA as though it's the worst place on Earth. Hollywood and West Hollywood (which I think is actually it's own city?) are certainly shitshows and are definitely the worst places you could go to in LA but SF is like a post apocalyptic wasteland. Everything that made SF what it was has been replaced by the worst kinds of tech bros, rich assholes and massive amounts homeless people. I'm not saying that there aren't a lot of fake people in LA or that LA doesn't have a people problem but holy shit SF has such a massive people problem.
Like any major US city LA has a very notable homeless problem but I can't imagine it even comes within striking distance of the homeless problem in SF. For what it's worth in the time I have spent in LA never did I see someone taking a shit in public nor have I heard stories from anyone who has witnessed such a thing (my brother has lived there for 5 years and has never witnessed that). That's not to say you won't see some crazy shit in LA but yeah... SF is a sad shell of its former self while for better or worse LA is still (mostly) LA.
Like any major US city LA has a very notable homeless problem but I can't imagine it even comes within striking distance of the homeless problem in SF. For what it's worth in the time I have spent in LA never did I see someone taking a shit in public nor have I heard stories from anyone who has witnessed such a thing (my brother has lived there for 5 years and has never witnessed that). That's not to say you won't see some crazy shit in LA but yeah... SF is a sad shell of its former self while for better or worse LA is still (mostly) LA.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I had a hell of a time finding a toilet that wasn't employees-only one night in New Orleans in 1996. I finally found a McDonalds that had a toilet when I was getting close to exploding. They had a security guard posted in front of the restrooms checking receipts but it was the best I could do with the time I had left. I wasn't interested in eating there but I bought a meal anyway. By the time I made it through the line and went back to the restroom with my receipt the guard had left for the night and the restroom was closed.
Current, no-fucks-left-to-give me would just pull down his pants and shit on the floor right in front of the counter. But 1996 me shit in the alley outside.
Current, no-fucks-left-to-give me would just pull down his pants and shit on the floor right in front of the counter. But 1996 me shit in the alley outside.