I've been to Portland, and I live in SOMA. SOMA and the Mission in SF are way worse than Portland. The article author has no idea how much more anarchy American progressives are capable of countenancing. SF is faaaaaar worse than Portland, and there really isn't any political backlash against city officials. The teenagers in the Bay Area call SOMA "pooptown". When I first came to learn of this nickname, I was about to protest as a resident, because I thought it was offensive and didn't reflect the neighborhood, with all its restaurants and fancy employers. But then I thought about it some more. And I remembered how on my first day at work in 2014, I stepped in human feces and tracked it over the office. And I thought these kids are visiting the neighborhood from other, cleaner suburbs. It makes sense that their primary impression of the neighborhood would be the large amount of human feces everywhere ... which would really stand out to them. As residents, we just walk around the poo, and don't think much about it.

Anyway, I have to agree, we do live in a crime-ridden, feces smeared neighborhood.

But there's a couple of positives too. First, the crime is almost all non-violent. And, second, the city cleans up the poo very quickly, if you call them.