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Originally Posted by bnk
How is it in San Diego ?
No one talks about the homeless there.
I'm going to SD Saturday for a week.
Its going to probably be the warmest city in the continental
USA next week. Even Florida is going to get cold.
And speaking of Florida. I go every year to Fort Myers to Naples area.
Never crossed many homeless people in this area.
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I'm a San Diego native and am here temporarily until I find a new LA lease (I just moved out of Koreatown).
It exists, but it is nothing, and I mean nothing, compared to how widespread and depraved it is in LA/SF/Seattle/PDX. There is an area southeast of downtown San Diego near the ballpark that is a little rough around the edges and that someone from out of CA may be shocked by--perhaps a 4x4 block area. To me, it's child's play compared to
this (Culver City is one of the nicest parts of LA--note it is 100x worse on this street than a year ago which was shot Jan 2020, the encampments are now on both sidewalks and much more voluminous) or
this.
Outside of that, encampments are pretty much not tolerated anywhere in SD. There are some homeless people in Mission Valley living by the "river", and that's as much as I can think of.
Honestly, I think SD being a much more politically conservative metro (by CA standards) plays a big part...I cannot picture residents of Point Loma being OK with crystal meth infested tents being set up next to elementary school.
Downtown San Diego is hands down infinitely cleaner than any other west coast major city. There are visible homeless people walking around here and there, but nothing like the below on seemingly every block like where I've been living in LA. Some of the SJW types on here seem to think I'm talking about someone just laying outside a storefront. When I say encampments, I'm talking about this:
Which supposedly, we as residents (already paying obscenely high costs for rent) should take zero issue with.