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originally posted by: EternalShadow
The byproducts of 'sanctuarism'.
originally posted by: musicismagic
Just imagine some of these people work in high class restaurants washing your dishes. Sad to say but rich flight will happen with-in the next 3 years for SF. This homelessness is happening in a world class nation. But America needs to worry about taking care of all the children in Africa, which later become criminals.
Also the same thing is happening in Russia big time.
I think the herion import at this level just can't happen without some kind of govt. planes help from poppy fields around the world.
I notice no Asians on the streets.
When will all this stop. It won't till something big hits the streets, like an earthquake and then the homeless will have a great party on the rich that finally said "screw it, you can have it all". The Philippines and India come to mind what shanty towns look like.
originally posted by: notsure1
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: TinfoilTP
Yeah. Because only San Francisco has homeless opiate addicts.
In America Only Cali has it this bad.
I always said if I am ever homeless Im moving to Cali. Alot of people think like that I guess lol..
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: anonentity
It's a growing phenomenon in the West at some point radical and extreme measures will have to be applied, simply because the problem has grown to the point where money will have to be spent.
How do you see throwing money at this issue solving the problem? Exactly who’s money do you intend to spend?
originally posted by: stormcell
originally posted by: Bigburgh
originally posted by: Bigburgh
a reply to: Phage
Are we talking island realistate?
This was my bucket list.. it's gone now
HAWAI‘I – WAI‘ŌPAE TIDEPOOLS
2 bedroom 1 bath $680K...
Something does not ad up when I could buy Pacific Beachfront for less than a shanty in San Francisco..
This was 4 month prior to the volcano eruption. The cost of living in California is ridiculous...
What are they weeding out?
Investors from China are buying up properties in San Francisco and the Bay Area as blind investments. At the same time the population in the Bay Area is getting older and those between 40 and 60 don't want to move homes. Then there are those buying up homes and renting them out to singles for $1500/room per month.
geocurrents.info...
You only need to see a density map of the Bay Area to see that while San Francisco has super-high population density of over 15.00 to 146.00 people per 900 square/meters, other parts of the Bay Area are completely uninhabited due to being zoned as national parks and being mountain ranges.
originally posted by: CreationBro
Windemere is at the very least, 95% asian. Thats not an exaggeration.
originally posted by: CreationBro
originally posted by: stormcell
originally posted by: Bigburgh
originally posted by: Bigburgh
a reply to: Phage
Are we talking island realistate?
This was my bucket list.. it's gone now
HAWAI‘I – WAI‘ŌPAE TIDEPOOLS
2 bedroom 1 bath $680K...
Something does not ad up when I could buy Pacific Beachfront for less than a shanty in San Francisco..
This was 4 month prior to the volcano eruption. The cost of living in California is ridiculous...
What are they weeding out?
Investors from China are buying up properties in San Francisco and the Bay Area as blind investments. At the same time the population in the Bay Area is getting older and those between 40 and 60 don't want to move homes. Then there are those buying up homes and renting them out to singles for $1500/room per month.
geocurrents.info...
You only need to see a density map of the Bay Area to see that while San Francisco has super-high population density of over 15.00 to 146.00 people per 900 square/meters, other parts of the Bay Area are completely uninhabited due to being zoned as national parks and being mountain ranges.
Those less inhabitated areas, say, the East Bay for example, are becoming over developed as well.
Im from there. Spoke to an elderly man that lived there all the way back during the 1950s. Said it was beautiful, nothing but rolling golden hills as far as the eye could see. The east bay that is.
Now, youll see suburbs everywhere. The suburbs built up to the 90's were ok, but the newer developments are no-yard properties, all the houses look identical, and are built 10 feet from the next house.
One example is a place called Windemere. Thousands of these shoebox houses built in what used to be a beauitul set of rolling hills.
What ls interesting is the demographic. In the area I lived in about 10 miles away, it was a mix of people, but the majority of folks were caucasian. The high school i attended was about 50% caucasian, 30% asian, 10% latino, 5% african american and 5% mixed.
Windemere is entirely different and shows what a previous poster was talking about, regarding the Chinese investors.
Windemere is at the very least, 95% asian. Thats not an exaggeration.
A friend of mine had to have his son transfer to their high school, and he said the demographic matches the neighborhood. Its about 95% asian, and roughly 80% of that number is Chinese and Indian. Apparently the intellectual snobbery coming from these groups towards anyone who isnt asian is very real.
I dont really care to be honest, but i always found it interesting that people with my skin color were called racist bigots by "minorities" in that area, despite the fact that we had good friends that were of many different ancestrys.
Both in high school and at the UC i attended, youd see multi cultural groups of people hanging out, and then youd have a group of 20 chinese people or 20 indian people roving as a pack, with quite literally no diversity, racially speaking. Youd be surprised by the amount of snide, elitist and racist comments Ive heard and even been the butt of, coming from these particular ethnic groups. Thats not a lie, thats a fact. Theyd literally make fun of me for being white, even correlate whiteness with stupidity. Funny...
Dunno about other places, but in Cali, the self segregation is a very real thing.
Surprised no one talks about it. Probably out of fear theyll be called a racist bigot by... racist bigots.
Ive got no problem talking about it. Doesnt matter what race you are to me, ill call people out equally for being racist morons. Besides, im not even completely human and my "kind" were wiped out by the imperialist humans. So...yea.
originally posted by: toysforadults
originally posted by: EternalShadow
The byproducts of 'sanctuarism'.
No this is a by product of a sick and broken culture.
We have chasms between different sects of our population where people are experiencing such different realities that they are unrelatable to others in different paradigms.
The rich and the poor as 1 popular example.
The rich are not capable of relating to the experience of poor people in the US even though they may live only blocks from 1 another.
This exist in many forms in both micro and macro cosms in the US. So what's happening is because we have such vast cultural differences.
Do you see how people in this thread cannot relate to the experience of the homeless people in SF and LA?
originally posted by: Isurrender73
a reply to: anonentity
San Francisco is currently spending approximately $34,000 per year per individual on the homeless. It looks like politicians are good at creating bloated programs that don't actually solve anything. Your taxes working hard for anyone but those who are actually homeless.