one week in SF (I'm usually in UK/Europe). things I noticed:

- pretty much everything is consistently 1.5x the size of the european equivalent
- likelihood of sparking random conversations with strangers here is much higher, and they're usually pretty fun
- seltzer water and kombucha instead of beer is super based
- much harder to get healthy ingredients, 90% of stuff has too much sugar - even when you don't expect it, e.g. bread. 
- still surprised mexican food hasn't become a worldwide hit, #1 thing I do when I visit SF is get (multiple) burritos from my fav. Mission taquerias
- streets are *much* cleaner than when I last visited in 2022. can actually use BART without background anxiety of getting hassled. last time I got chased by a crazy dude with a sharp pointy stick whilst walking through soma area. In 2016, I was caught in the cross fire of one fella throwing a rusty knife across the street at another. nothing crazy like that this time.

Has SF gotten safer/cleaner over the past few years?

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I think it’s a coastal cultural difference as well. Anyone in Philly will tell you Ktown/K+A is fucked- the Cali folks tend to have a harder time making moral judgements on the behavior.

this is how i felt when i visited in 2022 (lived in Philly/NYC)

I’d disqualify anyone in SF from answering. I went to high school in Baltimore city, spent a lot of time in Philly, DC, and Austin- I feel like my threshold for safe/clean fairly balanced. When I went to SF recently I couldn’t believe how bad it was- everyone I asked that lived there believed it was normal.

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Fair. There's a lot of transplants in the area, so they might have a different benchmark

i've seen what it used to be, so I might have unrealistic expectations

Interesting 🧐 most sf ppl say it’s gotten better

Feel like it’s just getting worse, but it’s still home 🤷‍♂️

I just got back from there. It's cleaner and prettier than when we were there last time. (Not on Market Street, though.)

Grew up IN sf. Went to college, came back. 
It was trending worse, then got awful during covid. 
The past year is night & day from what it was during covid. It isn’t what it was during ‘golden age’, but it’s absolutely cleaner and trending in the right direction.