> > > 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.