More S.F. residents share stories of police standing idly by as crimes unfold:

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5. Oh it's a nice place and all that for what you experienced.

But if you don't have money, it's very expensive to live in it, as it's rare to find anything around $20/hr unless you have college, or a trade at least.

Rents for simple 1 bedroom or more apts start at over $1000, and the city officials HATE the homeless here, but do nothing to stop from generating them, and have actually shut down resources available to them, more concerned about how it looks to tourists coming from elsewhere.

There's a LOT of various forms of abuse that go on behind closed doors here, and the while the city might pay lip service to being concerned about children in need here, they've actually shut down their own or hindered other resources that used to be available until they couldn't stay open any more. Like a walk in mental health outfit with counsellors available, a youth shelter, etc. there was a thing going on with homeless squeegee kids for a bit, until the city passed a law against the squeegee thing, leaving the the kids with nothing.

The only ones I ever Children's aid getting involved with...are the poor families that can't afford to do anything about such accusations, true or not.

There's a lot here that never reaches the papers or tourists, and it's designed that way.