Size aside, some argue that this is the best urban park in the country because of the never-ending list of activities you can even see Bison at Golden Gate Park. In fact, San Francisco is considered one of the top 15 most diverse cities in America. The perks of living in a diverse city are numerous.
The best part? Overall I think the people that live in San Francisco seem more open-minded, which opens the door for self-exploration and discovery. It probably comes as no surprise that the tech boom is one of the biggest reasons people are moving to San Francisco. In fact, in , tech jobs accounted for But based on my experience, a big pro of living in San Francisco is that public transportation is efficient enough where I can forego owning a car altogether.
Based on my personal experience, I suggest moving to San Francisco without a car because parking if you can even find it is unbelievably expensive. Owning a car in this hilly city is a hassle, no way around it. Or, if you prefer to bike, San Francisco is considered one of the 10 best biking cities in America. The median age of people living in San Francisco is In fact, San Francisco has the lowest percentage of kids of any major US city.
I would gander that the high cost of living bears most of the blame. Prior to moving to San Francisco for a job opportunity, I strongly considered the move for one big reason — Napa Valley. Home to more than wineries, Napa Valley is a mere 1. If you get the chance — go!
Everyday things, like haircuts, attractions, restaurants, etc. Living in San Francisco opens your eyes to the stark reality of the role money plays in a life well lived. This makes the Bay Area a mere pit-stop for most residents until they move on to more affordable cities or the outskirts of town. There is definitely a romance to the city, it is very liveable, safer than others in the United States, as well as being liberal and fun to boot.
Living here, you will have to get used to living with extremes. The housing crisis in the city is only worsening, and the amount of people being made homeless as a result is on the rise. To illustrate this, it is not unusual to see multi-million dollar houses that are fringed by tents where people without a roof over the head have decided to live. This sort of income inequality will definitely be one of the hardest things to tackle if you choose to live in San Fran. In terms of crime, there are things like car thefts and petty street crime that do occur, but these happen mainly in certain neighbourhoods; bicycle thefts and property crime also occurs.
However, this sort of thing happens in most and many people who live here feel totally safe. All in all, while a secure place to live, it is only safe — we would say — if you can afford to live there. Yes, it is more than safe to rent an Airbnb in the city.
While you can definitely expect high prices, you almost always get an incredible value with your rental. There are a couple of very unique Airbnb Plus options as well which are definitely worth the stay if you can afford it. The Airbnb platform makes the whole process of booking, paying and staying incredibly safe and reliable. Luckily, San Francisco is an openly queer city that accepts all sorts of sexualities and identities.
Make sure to check out the gay bars too! Planning a safe trip to a popular city like San Fran can be very overwhelming. The Tenderloin is one of the most unsafe areas in San Francisco. It has the most reported crimes. Mission Neighborhood and Hunters Point are quite unsafe at night as well.
Stay away from all parks after dark. Avoid the sketchy neighborhoods completely at night. This is a clear no. It is a high-crime neighborhood with violent street crime such as robbery and aggravated assault.
San Francisco is extremely safe, but some parts can be unsafe. It is a very rich city that is also very poor with a huge homeless population. It is a liberal, local city with kooky entertainment and events, that also happens to be completely packed with conventional tourists seeking out historic buildings and modes of transport.
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Again, thank you! Really great write-up on SF, I was fortunate to be able to visit there many times, from Las Vegas, when I was younger.
It was a very pleasant place in those years, , and then, frequently, from the mid-eighties to the late 90s. Driving, automatic trans is the best, a stick shift is difficult. Most interesting, a lady I knew there, business associate, had a three story home there, it was so narrow from side-to-side, but quite longer from front to back, and wow, worth a million thirty years ago, with side walls being shared with her left and right neighbors!
I truly recall and treasure my visits there, no bad experiences at all, SF is a real icon, I hope it somehow gets better there, please. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. More information. Is San Francisco Safe in ?
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Great for First Time Visitors. Of course San Francisco can be fixed. What other choice do we have? There is a dark nihilism that has gripped people, and we have to shake out of it. We have the values of inclusion, of celebrating diversity, of welcoming the stranger and defending the helpless.
All we have to do is translate those values into action: housing everyone, investing in public transportation, and creating a strong social safety net. We are capable of building a city we are proud of: an integrated, sustainable, vibrant city where anyone can thrive. In , an earthquake all but destroyed San Francisco. Everyone needs to set aside their cynical, smart-boy nihilism, roll up their sleeves, and get involved in local politics.
I desperately want to tell you yes, this city can be saved. And it is not an unreasonable wish for lifelong San Franciscans to try and hold on to some of the things that have made this city so great. I love San Francisco, oftentimes in spite of itself. But I worry when I look around and see the many competing stakeholders, few of which have any interest in collaborating. Companies like Uber and Lyft are being pressured by investors to find a path to profitability—something that works against any incentive to reduce the amount of cars on the road in San Francisco.
The companies are the two largest contributors to traffic congestion in the city, responsible for half of the overall increase. Airbnb, meanwhile, is positioning itself to go public in , which can only mean it needs to increase listings and inventory in the cities it operates, including San Francisco. Airbnb, of course, has little incentive to police its platform, and only attempts to do so when forced by legislation or bad press.
As rent prices skyrocket, it is more difficult than ever to build new units to catch up to the backlog of demand as more people flood into the Bay Area for IT jobs. Big tech companies like Facebook and Google compete dearly for talent without putting the same level of effort into engaging with the surrounding communities.
Only recently have executives at these companies started to make more serious inroads to change this. And the mess of red tape it takes to open a small business in a neighborhood has made it prohibitively difficult for would-be entrepreneurs to offer more local services to neighborhoods. I live in the Castro, where it sometimes feels like more vacant shops line Market Street than occupied storefronts. Add to that the landlords sitting on exorbitant asking prices for retail rentals, and we wonder why Main Street is being quickly replaced by Amazon.
My hope would be for more people to engage with their community, to become a part of the neighborhoods they live in. Right now, I see a lot of people succumbing to a commuter culture that spends its time in transit on buses down south to the Valley, then opting to complain and fight on networks like Nextdoor and Facebook instead of regularly attending neighborhood meetings.
And conversely, longtime residents often prefer to indict tech workers and want to eject them from the area instead of trying to work together as a community and make San Francisco actually function in the face of a rapidly changing cityscape.
Perhaps instead of eating another Doordash meal on the couch watching Netflix and surrounded by unopened cardboard Prime boxes, people will recognize how important it is to forge bonds within the neighborhood in order to make San Francisco a better place to live for everyone. But we can improve it to at least be better to live in for tomorrow.
Fixing something in San Francisco is like applying a Band-Aid to a gushing wound. I have to believe that change is possible, but it will require a lot of imagination, innovation, people power, and political will to make our city better.
All the more reason why civic and political participation of all people, especially those from marginalized communities, is so important. We know the issues best and we have the solutions.
Anybody suggesting that any singular fix will solve things—be it public power or more housing—is either naive or a charlatan. With that said, we can create so many better outcomes for so many more people. The ongoing nightmare of mentally ill homeless people being pushed onto our curbs cannot be solved in an afternoon.
But we can expediently fix the situation at San Francisco General Hospital in which 45 long-term beds for such people were willfully kept empty. We can help individuals and we can make incremental progress.
We can also attempt to shoot the moon with sweeping new proposals. A few of these have come to pass or are in the works. And they may well do much good. But they may well lead to iniquities of the sort that better-off San Franciscans have always ignored, leading to the shaky nostalgia for an ostensibly better time.
Can we do better? Everything that is wrong with SF—with America, with the world—can be traced back to wealth inequality. We mint billionaires at a per-capita pace that is unmatched on the planet. A few of them are generous; most are not. Meanwhile, many of their employees are struggling to make it here.
I hesitated to get political in response to this question, but the truth is that government—that little thing that is of, by, and for all of us—is the only solution to this problem. We need massive investments in subsidized housing, transit, infrastructure improvements, and public education to make this city a fundamentally just place.
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