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SF is a weird city crime wise, lots of property crime and theft. Occasional shootings but nothing like a rust belt war zone city.

San Francisco’s crime is mostly inconvenient for rich people, that’s why it’s in the news.

St. Louis is the 13th most dangerous city in the world but you won’t hear about it.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/243797/ranking-of-the-mo...

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The NIMBY cost of living problem is definitely huge add little annoys me more. I do wonder though if that's truly the cause for the high homelessness. Where are the homeless from? Are the from SF or other parts of CA or even came there from other states because of good weather and comparatively soft treatment they receive in SF? Genuine question. I've on several occasions tried to find statistics on this, but failed.

I would imagine they are from all over the US.

"The NIMBY cost of living problem is definitely huge add little annoys me more." it's not hugely relevant to the problem. California is massive, and 99.5% of it's land is available for most kinds of development. Citizens of a community have every right to decide how it should be managed.

Most 'high income / high property prices' places in the US in the world do not have this kind of crime problem - generally it's the other way around.

Gentrification for all it's good/bad elements generally leads to a reduction in crime.

So you are ok with stealing if the victims are "rich"?

No, what I’m saying is on the spectrum of crime in the US it’s insignificant.

Probably just that the contrast is so stark.

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