I grew up on Turk at between Leavenworth and Jones. I now live in Ohio. I think having to grow up there actually kept me off drugs. Growing up in the 70s i would say was perhaps a little better then it us today. You would still have your drugs and alcohol and even women of the night walking around every corner. There wasn’t a day that went by where I was waiting for the 31 Balboa bus at the corner of our street to go to school at 8:15 am that I wouldn’t see a drunk person passed out or someone shooting a needle into themselves. Seeing this terrified me as a six year old. How can you forget the beautiful smell coming off the freeway into San Francisco? Would I say that the tenderloin is the worst neighborhood in San Francisco no, I wouldn’t say that. Everybody’s just too busy getting high drunk to worry about anything else so you’re pretty safe there if you’re gonna walk through the tenderloin I would say the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco would be western edition. You don’t wanna go there.
Oh, and don’t believe everything you read on the Internet or Google sometimes it’s just not true. Sometimes you gotta take the word of a person that actually lived and grew up there believe me it’s not the worst. It’s pretty bad, but it’s not the worst.
I think the homelessness in San Francisco got a lot worse after 2020 I haven’t lived in San Francisco for a very long time so it has gotten a lot worse but western edition is the worst I don’t think a non-African-American can walk down the street without getting beat up or shot. To me That’s a lot worse than walking through a neighborhood full of homeless people and drugs.
There's a mini format of the tenderloin here in Frankfurt Germany where I live, You have people fixing up in the streets crime prostitution the lot, Just on a smaller scale.
Hard to believe..in my using days I was homeless in skid row and the tenderloin..never was hurt nor attacked...maybe because I was a drugged out...thank you God for 4 years of sobriety...
As someone who grew up in San Francisco I’m disgusted with the political structure of the city which has allowed this cancer to grow over the last 4 decades, it will only get much worse
You’re talking as if rightaards aren’t responsible for their trickle down economics mess that ruined the state of this country back in the 80s & the way red states are crumbling dirt & leeching off of federal funds to function?🤣🤣 pls get back to reality, truth is disheartening
I was born in San Francisco. I spent most of my youth in suburbs of it. When I moved there to work with my new wife and child, all of us recently arrived from where I was living in Chile, the rents were high (to me at the time). I lived on Ofarrell between Hyde and Leavenworth in a One Bedroom. It had a large walk in closet that we used for the "baby room", since it had two doors and served as a small room. We paid $1,150 in rent. When I divorced my ex in 2009, many tech workers from the Peninsula were moving to SF "Because it's cool". That apartment now rents for $3,500.. Why did this happen: Wealthy entitled folks moving to SF, who drove up the rent and demonized the homeless. That and a city government that refuses to address the issue, much like every city in the USA. I have lived in Latin America for half of my life. Poor countries that Provide Housing to folks. The USA is a disgrace and SF is just a reflection of it.
Thank you the truth is hard to take , the initialed have taken their lows to a new level , city government are too busy counting their money they stole from the tax payers.
Seems like an obvious first day thing to do as mayor of any town like that is to have a designated place for people to camp when they go homeless and have sanitation there. Public bathrooms and people cleaning them.
and heaven help you if you ask for a plastic bag for your items when you shop, people will stare at you as if you just slit the throat of a newborn baby. Actually they are totally into babies being aborted, so probably the wrong analogy.
@@IIII...... But with counseling or psychological help the homeless in Texas can bounce back much easier not having to pay 3500 for rent etc. The homeless in California probably feel like they'll never get out of their rut.
Calling people bums who are oppressed .By the careful planning of the secret Government. And FEMA camps also is part of the secret Govt set to lock up the world. Through communist rules and force. It's alot easier for this happen by boosting the rent up and up. And you go a few blocks up the street. And the housing is better. It's clean. And expect people not to snap. They know Energy. They know when they being filmed like on display. Most of people recording aren't going through the problem. I used to live on street in SD California. 12 years ago. They would wake us up. Just to preach. Give sleeping bags. Water bottles and more carry around. And ask us what's the problem. They can see wtf the problem is.
When I was a kid, I saw footage of slums in India with a main road going past it, and I used to wonder - "How can those people drive past this everyday and just ignore it?" Well, as San Fran shows: people just get desensitized when they see it everyday.
I don't believe that's a good thing. People have hearts of stone in this world. We need to pray for God to give us new hearts, hearts of flesh every day.
it’s true. i live here; u don’t give the homeless food or money, because u don’t know if they’ll try to rob u after seeing u DO have something. they harass u, they follow u, and they scream insults at u. still, u see them walking with no shoes or jackets in 40° weather, their skin pale and splotchy with bruises and sores from injection sites, and glimpses of humans just needing help underneath the dullness of their eyes. it’s heartbreaking, but if u know what’s good for u, u won’t interact. u will ignore it. that’s sadly just how it is.
I lived in SF homeless as a drunk bum from 2016 to 2017 and can speak a little bit to the issue of desensitivation. When I first walked through the Tenderloin, I literally cried when I saw the pain and hopelessness. Just imagine living as one of those people. Every day would be pure hell because they are so disillusioned by their addictions and/or mental health issues. To top it off, their brains are completely fried and the chances of ever being a functioning person are gone. They will die alone, dirty and most likely with no recollection of anything good to hold onto when they take their last breath. Such a sad waste of a life. I desensitized myself to survive. When I first got to San Francisco, I would hand some of the people in the TL money. All I was doing was enabling and putting myself in danger, so I stopped. Interestingly, there is a paradox about being homeless that only a homeless person understands, but this is just personal perspective. When I became homeless, I became extremely depressed and felt hopeless all the time. My default settings were sad, lonely, scared, depressed, and angry. I stopped taking showers. I essentially gave up. As I got dirtier, normal people started looking fearfully at me or they would move away from me on the bus. I became almost "subhuman" which in turn perpetuated the sense that I was nothing and that I was in fact the very thing my fellow man perceived me to be....subhuman. Instead of "I think therefore I am", my thought process was, "You think, therefore I am " While being looked at a certain way constantly does not excuse me from getting my S$$% together, it does make it harder. I could have just stayed on the streets and drank myself into a coma every day. One circumstance made me change. It was the "aha" moment. I was on the bus and saw a young couple kissing and looking at each other with love and contentment and just having a great conversation with one another. My first thought, in my hopeless state was, "F$%# both of you and your perfect F$%%# lives." Something happened almost immediately after I thought that. For some reason, a thought came over me that said, "Dude, you hate these two people because they are having a moment and love each other. There is something seriously wrong with you that needs to be fixed." From that moment on, I began the process of repairing my life and no, it wasn't magical or rainbows and unicorns. It was tough as hell and took tons of mental fortitude and I did fail at times along the way but I picked myself up. I was lucky. The poor souls who are lost in the Tenderloin with no chance of ever coming back were not as fortunate and it is truly heartbreaking. With the above dissertation I just wrote, my advice to anyone is to not give them money. The city of SF feeds them. Trust me. I know from personal experience. Whatever money given to them WILL go to drugs. Their addictions run so deep that their amygdalas, the part of the brain that regulates unconscious survival mechanisms, has a primal need for drugs. Everything else is secondary, including hygiene, food, and shelter. They have crossed into the terrain where they have lost the choice to think of anything other than the next fix because for them, to use drugs is to survive. Sadly, some of the people in the Tenderloin, specifically the ones that look almost crippled will jump up and find a burst of energy when they have an opportunity to score a drug much like any other rational human would jump out of the way of a car bolting toward them. I have seen it firsthand. Be grateful for your life and your sanity. It is easy to worry about life. B 6:47 6:47 e thankful for the uncertainties of tomorrow because the sad fact is that "tomorrow" for the people who are too far gone has very few outcomes: drugs, hospitals, pain, death, or jail. So sad. If you believe in God, energy, the universe, reincarnation, or even nothing, remember that the hopeless people we see were once innocent babies. This did not happen to them over night and despite their bad decisions or wrongdoings, we can never know a person's full story.
SF use to be a tourist destination...not anymore when people take dumps in front of your million dollar condo, routine car break in but primarily because you just don't feel safe anywhere in SF anymore.
@Big Dick Black I wouldn’t park on the street there. Or park outside of the garage at Golden Gate Park. There are videos of people smash-and-grabbing car after car parked along the street. Stories from co-workers having their windows broken parked in nice areas. This shouldn’t be happening. But I think it exploded when city government began lowering penalties for crimes. Then give them needles and decriminalize drug use. It’s going to go south and go south quick.
@@MasterMalrubius needle exchanges prevent the spread of diseases like HIV, AIDS, Hep C, etc. They are going to do the drugs regardless, so it's a responsible move to allow people an outlet to safely do so as opposed to spreading pestilence and disease.
@@acolyteaxiom4054 If they wouldn't be given clean needles all the time the problem would dissolve itself to some point.ecause the li e expectancy is lower.
I lived in the Tenderloin for many years when I attended UC Berkeley. In fact, you passed my old apartment building on your video. What I remember about the 'Loin was that there were lot's of families with kids; this was in the mid to late 1990s. The problems you speak of were there, for certain, when I lived there. But even now, there still remains many families with young kids in the Loin; these are families that are doing the best they can to make ends meet and put food on the table. There was this odd sense of dual realities going on..the crime and drug and homelessness reality, and then the little Chinese grandmothers walking their children to school, the old black men dressed in their sunday best on their way to chruch, the lovely woman who sold tamales on the corner of Hyde and Turk streets, greeting me every morning with a "good morning mister amigo." For the most part, these two realities lived side by side but lived separate existences. There are other hoods that I would say are more dangerous than the 'Loin, such as Oceanview, Bayview, and the Excelsior district. They do not have the notoriety of the 'Loin, and are not as well known, but just as dangerous from a personal safety perpective. I am glad that I experienced what I would call 'the heart' of the 'Loin" when I lived there, those laughing kids, the wonderful people I met who were trying to make the most of a terrible situation. Do I ever feel the need to return? Abosolutely not; but my heart goes out to the people I met who were not as lucky as I was, and do not have the means to leave.
@@char-briyagandy9578 We're talking about mid-90's. I often went there at night during that time and could imagine someone wanting to live cheaply in SF could've stayed there. $1700 today is than I expected. I stayed at a youth hostel there in 2018 for about $200/night. EDIT: Meant to say that in the mid-90's, TL was liveable, IMO. That's why I was willing to visit at night
I lived there for 3 years from 2011 - 2013. I lived in the grey, white, and red building on the right @ 12:09. Used to get food from the restaurant on the left "Tikka Masala"; glad to see it's still there. When I first went there it was a shock, I had just came to the US as an international student and I was walking around Powell & Market and ended up here. It was like I walked into a different country. Never would've thought I would end up living in a place like that specially given my lifestyle in my country. I was living with a family when I came here and they got me an apartment there, I had no idea where I was about to move to. It was $950/month for a studio (it was a big apartment for a studio). It was definitely scary, smelled like urine no matter where you went, the sidewalks are horrible with pee, vomit, and trash everywhere. However I never had a scary or dangerous encounter with anyone there in my 2 years. Yes, people were acting crazy around me but they mind their own business. Towards the end I worked at a place on Haight/Belvedere where I would get off at 10:30 11pm and I would take the bus back to Market & Powell and then walk home to my building here and it wasn't that bad. And you are right, there are a lot of families that lived there and looked like they've been living there for a long time. Specially around civic center and near union square Would I live there again? Absolutely not. But my experience hasn't been unsafe that's all I would say. I wouldn't be scared of going there either though, but that's probably because I lived there. If you're not from there, you stand out and I can see how people have had bad experiences. I did go there for the first time after I moved out of tenderloin in October 2020 and it seemed like it was worse. There were a lot more people and a lot more tents.
I used to be a truck driver for Budweiser in San Francisco and the Tenderloin was my route, everyday was like being surrounded by the walking dead🧟♂️🧟♂️ Was a total freak show, but I LOVED that job. If you want an in depth interview about the tenderloin, you should interview me I spent 8 to 12 hours a day there almost every day, I've got some stories...
@@davetorres7029 Sadly the drugs actually physically change your brain. My sister, and a good portion of my family actually, are dead. They only went to the "outreach/rehab" to get the medication and sell it for more drugs. The people making the medication don't care because they're making a lot of money, along with the us government and cartel
From the UK here. I made the mistake of walking through there a decade ago and I was on tenderhooks the whole way to my hotel. I quickly learned not to light up a cigarette in clear view anywhere in that city. That was a cue for opportunistic predators to surface quicker than anything witnessed in the Serengeti National Park. LOL. It's a shame because there's some gorgeous buildings and architecture there that would be all the more striking if they were given a little care and attention. Keep safe and take care, everybody.
@@destaylor8083 Hi, Des. Most places have bad areas they like to keep quiet about. There are numerous areas in my home city, Birmingham you'd be very unwise to walk around at certain times. It's fair to say Tenderloin wasn't highlighted in the brochure I received. LOL. Take care.
@@johnanthonyp I don’t know why people think that other countries somehow lack bad areas. The UK and the US feel virtually the same, but of course with cultural differences. You still have your nice areas of town, the working class areas and the unemployed/impoverished areas
My mother died last year in December, she was in the Tenderloin, and she was one of the "drug addicts" your talking about. But she was so much more than that, she was a good person she just wasn't strong enough to overcome the hold her addiction had on her. It took her from me, from raising me, from being with me. I saw her once every few years sometimes longer. This is not something she wanted, drug addiction is a monster and can take anyone to a place of desperation just like it did to my mom. I love and miss her so much
Portland isn't as bad as SF or Oakland, but it has gone from very nice, clean, and safe to not those things in about 4 years. I am not sure that the politicians and voters will get it back to what it was.
As a Bay Area native, I went there once a few years ago and have never gone back. Human feces on the sidewalk, needles everywhere, people strung out on drugs and homeless tents everywhere.
@Mike T Strange comment...I hope you did not assume I vote democrat. I don't vote democrat or republican. I vote for policy, not for party loyalty or loyalty to a person. California has some of the most ridiculous laws and for some reason, people keep on voting for them. It truly boggles me. I am planning my family's exit out of this state, so I guess let it burn?
I lived in the Tenderloin in the late 80s and mid 90s. The Heartland Hotel, when it was actually a residential hotel and not owned by East Indians. I was never robbed or beat up. I lived at the Golden Gate Apartments bordered by Jones and Taylor. This is a insulting elitist low budget video disparaging the City. It sounds dumb and honestly, nobody is that interested in you. Grow the up. You use , they, them quite a bit, but you are no better than any of those people. This is disgusting and insulting on so many levels.
I accidentally walked into the Tenderloin area one night while trying to find my hotel. There were no street lights and people were sitting on the sidewalks doing drugs. I was all by myself and had never been to SF before. That was 2004. I’m not an easily scared person but it terrified me.
My husband accidentally took a walk around downtown Los Angeles. My husband and I was so scared, homeless was crowded on both side walks. The smell of feces and urine were strong and bad. The homeless looked at us like we were aliens and we were only one there and surrounded by homeless. We quickly found a different street and got out quickly and safely.
As a Mexican, my first time that I saw somebody using neddles was in Downtown San Francisco when I was 12, visiting an aunt of mine, and I was shocked how the police just walked by the two homeless people getting high right in their feet. Such a shame for a city that is also so beautiful, and fkn expensive.
A white guy, a friend of mine, looking for LIVE, Hetero-sexual Sex Shows in the 70's, was stabbed and robbed in the tenderloin. The police said, "Don't go there!"
They should just relocate Nancy Pelosi this is her area which confirms how much she and the rest of the liberal Dems really care about all the cities across the US.
as someone who lived in Detroit, this is nothing.... I went on vacation to San Francisco to do pretty much nothing but street photography and I was all over the place walking, in the bus, Uber... I was in the tenderloin quite a few times and that was the only place I felt unsafe. not bad for being such a large city with so many districts. try coming to Detroit...... better yet go to Chicago.
The Tenderloin is a mess and will always be a mess. Located just a couple of blocks from Hastings Law School and not all that far from the Twitter Headquarters, Asian Art Museum and the original spot of the first United Nations. I lived in SF for 27 years and only just moved out of the Bay Area in Feb 2020. Unfortunately, it's close to the Theater district too. The time I'd gone to the theater in SF, I went to see 'Wicked' and parked a block from the Tenderloin. When I returned to my car, this homeless dude had already laid all of his things all over my car from the front, hood and trunk. Not only did he get upset when I told him to get his things off of my car, but asked if he could come home with me. Lol! What you see in the Tenderloin is truly heartbreaking and upsetting. Also, the feces on the ground was so bad that someone actually created an app on areas to avoid to keep from stepping in feces on the side walk. So sad. So bad. Lastly, the mental illness is so bad and so untreated, that someone will easily come at you with a knife. At one point in the early 2000 there used to be some decent restaurants, like the Golden Era Restaurant and Farmer Brown. They have since shuttered their doors. Anytime I was in the Tenderloin, I would walk in the street.
@@Bdub1952 Capitalism isn't the failure, but liberalism. This country has plenty of socialist programs and policies in place, especially in San Francisco (California). The problem is liberalism. Socialist countries like Germany have a cultural/ethical standard that it won't deviate from. Liberal America on the other hand, facilitates decadence with increasingly foolish programs (legalizing drugs use and even providing the drugs, etc.), and give-away programs with no accountability. Wasted money and wasted lives.
I am French and in 1997 as a young woman my boyfriend and I took our first trip to the US. It was a road trip. We were young and our travel agency ( it was before the internet) had us booked up in a hotel room for the first three nights in the Leslie Hotel in SF .Before landing we asked the air stewards and hostesses how far was our hotel from the airport. They took a look at the adress and sent us a look of disgust telling us it was situated in the Tenderloin the homeless quarter of the city and we had to be careful. I must admit it scared the shit out of me .The first night we couldn t sleep because of the sirens of police and rescue vehicules. In the end it turned out those poor people looked far worse than they actually were .I never felt in danger. I only felt pity .I had never seen such poverty before. I went back to the US every year after that but didn t stay in that area again .I stopped going for a few years and went back to SF in summer 2019 . This time we stayed in a posh hotel near Union Square and I was shocked to discover the homeless problem had gotten far worse .It used to be limited to the Tenderloin now it is everywhere in the city. And that was pre covid...
I stayed at Axiom Hotel in Union Square earlier this year and I was shocked at the amount of homeless people around our hotel and in Union Square in general. At night, my friends and I could hear gunshots. Being from Australia, it was a culture shock and nothing like anything I’ve seen in any other city in a first world country. Walking to a corner store from the hotel at night did not feel safe, so we ordered water and snacks through Uber Eats to be delivered to the hotel. The US Government needs to radically improve their welfare system to decrease the rate of homelessness and crime. It’s out of hand in San Fran. So sad.
@@stairs6468 Yeh, think of all the money that could go towards permanent housing projects for the homeless in San Fran if major tech companies actually paid their fair share of taxes too, rather than dodging them through offshore tax havens. It’s really disappointing because San Fran truly would be one of the coolest cities I’ve ever been to if it wasn’t inundated with poverty and crime. I felt very grateful to be from Australia after seeing the rate of homelessness across the US on my trip this year, which is a sentiment you’d generally experience after going to a developing country. Instead, I visited the richest country on Earth.
@@juliastewart741 I totally agree. The gap between the super rich and the destitute is widening all the time in San Francisco . Coming from Europe I couldn't get used to seeing all this desperation day in day out. . I remember feeling guilty coming back to my big hotel room every day in SF. The Big Tech companies should do something since they drove so many out on the streets. The government has to take action and people have to pay more taxes...
Most people who will disagree with you don't live in SF. My friends still do and it's that bad in the Tenderloin. One lived in the Tenderloin as a struggling musician in 1978 and it was bad then. In fact, its worse every year. Thanks Dems, you own this mess. It's a pit.
Ironic how you’re saying this because Tenderloin has been a mess even before the Dems took over. Just the typical “dEmOcRaT bAd rEpUbLiCaN gOoD” doesn’t add up.
@@brianfuller757 hmm, SF only started to stagnate only around the 1980s, and declined after the 2000s, if Democrats really failed then why didn’t it decline much earlier because if it is then it would have, you’re just trying to misrepresent the situation.
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There's worse spots in SF believe it or not. Tenderloin has been the de facto standard for decades, but it's sort of the old school trash. I used to have no issues there in the 80's. And even as recently as 2003 I used to traverse it with no issues. Today, places like along Van Ness or near Korea Town that were clean business oriented areas just 15-20 years ago is now tent city. I'd been in SF since the early 70's, had my office there in he 90's on Townsend. There were never tents, and the cops used to not let bums congregate for too long. I haven't been back since 2007 and have no plans.
Also. Places like the Tenderloin has been an area with cheap motels , non- profit organizations that feed the hungry, or provide some services to help the individual. In Kensington, young kids take the train direct to Kenzo Ave. To score. The others use the non profits, food banks, shelters, and methadone clinic. Unfortunately this urban subway district attracts runaways, abused women and kids. Nowhere else to go.! It's not just lazy selfish drug addicts Nothing is that simple or 1 dimensional. Nick is too scared to actually talk to those on the street. Everyone has a story.
@@lelacorleone4099 You really want Nick to get out of his car and interview people in The Tenderloin district of San Francisco? Why don't you do it? We'll wait for the results or the obituary.
Born, raised and lived in SF for 41yrs before moving, most avoided that part of town. A friend rented a flat in the TL, was a decent building and flat, but the neighborhood sucked, he loved it, the environment, liked walking around there, etc. He was an artist type, author, photographer, video producer, film writer and had a different view of things. No one ever bugged him, this was in the late 90’s, bad then but nothing as it is now, he lived in there area for three years before moving to LA.
It was the government's idea. The area got destroyed by an earthquake 120 years ago and they rebuilt it with all the seedy industries like gambling cause they were desperate for economic activity there.
I lived in the tenderloin for a little while back in the day and am getting post traumatic flashbacks watching this video... my teeth are literally chattering and I feel like Im going to throw up. I didnt even know I had this and have never felt this before. I guess i blocked it out of my mind till now! Was a terrible experience and the desperation and tragedy you see day to day is kept in your bones i guess. Was a very low point for me. Gives me the shivers to think about how i used to have to walk/ride my bike home late at night through the screaming denizens... Thank God I am somewhere better now. Praise God. I sincerely pray for the poor souls trapped in that living hell.Was such a depressing time. Never was bothered by anybody though, never robbed or anything, just saw somuch misery and was so poor.
Right after graduating from architectural school in the early 90’s I moved to San Francisco and began my career. I fell in love with the city. I thought it was the most beautiful place I had ever seen. Unfortunately, the cost of living being what it was, after a several years I had to leave. My goal was to gain experience elsewhere and someday return. Sadly, that didn’t work out as I had planned, and I didn’t return to San Francisco until a few years ago for a few weeks. My old friend was getting married. I was shocked by what I found. What had happened to my beautiful city?!? I made peace with this by saying the city of my memory never really existed. It was just a fabrication of a young, wide-eyed, inexperienced graduate architect, starting out in life. I’m just not sure whether I hope that’s true or not.
That doesn’t even make sense! “ the city of my memory never really existed” ? You just wanted to type on the internet about a place you’ve barely lived , it’s called change !
It was a beautiful golden high culture city, but a very Masonic one of conspiracy. It too used to dream about San Francisco and California as a kid in Missouri and went the first time in 2004 seeing it's stunningly beautiful, but also noticed the social disorder though wasn't as bad as the last time I went in 2014. It's not because we are naïve, but because our country is going down the rabbit hole out of being little more than serving the new world order conspiracy. Did you see the strange owl club, Masonic stuff everywhere, and all the familiar globalist narratives in the art and culture. We live in the grandest deception of history. It's to carry out the Bible book called The Revelation so they can get on with their one world order at any cost. However, they'll fail, but it destroyed America and our world so judgement day just can't seem to come soon enough.
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My friend was walking down to Powell street from civic center and someone walked up and threw lye in her face, the best time to really see all the destruction is around noontime. It's actually half way clean,it's disgusting especially when someone was smoking crack right in front of London breed while filming, she just ignored it. So don't expect any change down there.
I live in San Jose , And it's surely spreading everywhere , this guy was smoking crack right in front of me asking for Money and he flinched at me and my dog for saying No I am sorry Sir . I pray for California and it's people , this was right in front of a liquor store in the downtown area.
I am on Social Security. I am 65 & now homeless. I am not an alcoholic or a drug addict!!!! My Social Security funds has caused my homelessness. Cost of living, Joe's inflation!!!! I am now in with these drug addicted "Basket Cases"....I hail from Florida. 🌴 Yep. Thanks, Joe.
Dude you are crazy for having your windows down! I’m from SF and would never ever ever do that! You’re lucky you didn’t get a turd upside your head or WORSE! Stay safe please!
Always leave yourself a full car length when stopped at an intersection to leave yourself and out if attacked. Also don't make eye contact with anyone unless you're wanting a confrontation
I went to SF once and will never go again. I saw drug addicts shitting in their hands at a Jack n' the Box, I saw police cars with iron bars instead of windows, I got sick and threw up black slime for three days, and worst of all I saw a homeless man with no legs crawling on the sidewalk. One of if not the most disturbing thing I've witnessed.
The Tenderloin has always been one of the worst area since the 80s. It used to be the place to stay for new immigrants or new SF residents with small budgets. Unfortunately drug addicts and alcoholic homeless transients start pouring in cause of cheap rents and government temporary housing subsidies. The pandemic just make places like this spread like wild fire all over the country. Someone definitely need to step in to clean to this mess.
Houses cost 1M in those awful areas, if they can afford forking up a million for an average house, than they probablyyyyy can afford nice cars as well.
Tenderloin is real bad…I had a training in SF for a tech job I started and our hotel was a block or two away. We took an uber to dinner and it was shocking to see how rough the neighborhood was. There were a few international folks also starting the job and they were completely shocked this was in America.
@@mariomariu4394 because alot of the tech workers, not all of course was willing and able to pay a-hole prices for apartments so the rest of the working class what little that was was left of it got the rug pulled out from underneath them by the tech boom as rents went through the roof. It basically ate the soul of the city. Alot of the blue collar families and wierd eccentric artist/musician types that gave s.f. its character got priced out of the city over time and replaced by a monoculture of bland young money having socially awkward people that just walk around constantly staring at their phones like automatons. It was soul crushing to watch.
Let be honest ourselves... San Francisco vote for their own destruction and misery... let them deal with it and live with it. Eventually misery and despair will widespread all across San Francisco. A true American tragedy.
I use to live in tenderloin during the early 2000's as a college student (O'ferrell, and later on Ellis st). Being from San Diego, I had only seen maybe 3 homeless people in my whole life. I was in utter disbelief that people lived like this. Imagine living for decades in this filthy, concrete jungle. I use to give away change all the time and had real compassion for people. Eventually it was just too depressing watching the sheer desperation of these people. After the first time I was jumped and had to wrestle with a filthy wacked out woman, I lost all compassion. Walking at night to my graveyard shift job at Macys was 4 blocks of the walking dead constantly harassing you. Then I'd walk home the next morning watching them all line up for food at Glide Memorial Church. Now I see the utter rot of the city. Tents all up in down streets, convenience stores constantly looted and having to close down, and now Union Square stores being robbed for everything by "urban youths". Good riddance SF, there's no turning this ship around.
@@KK-kd6yl currently, there are many throughout SD just like many other cities unfortunately. But growing up in a middle class suburb, there were zero. It was just unheard of. It wasn't until my first time visiting down town SD proper that I saw one. My dad had to explain what I was seeing. It was my first conversation about drugs and homelessness. Much more innocent times. In 15 years my hometown became unrecognizable because of drugs, gangs and homeless.
@@briangriffin8106 I appreciate that sentiment, and I have a lot of love and great memories of SF. But it seems like the people of NY voted in politicians/policies that weren't deferential to criminality. If memory serves there were conservative mayors that had no tolerance for quality of life crimes and even tougher on violent crime. SF will never vote more conservative and so it will always have liberal policies that aid low level criminality out of a misplaced sense of altruism. Deference to these lost people spills out into the streets in the perfectly predictable way we're seeing. Its only a mystery to the people who live there and are ideologically aligned. With all that said, I do love the city and pray for them even as it circles the drain.
I am utterly heartbroken. My family has been in the Bay Area for over 100 years. We used to get dressed up to visit San Francisco. I had my prom at the St Francis hotel in 1977. We used to ride BART when it was new when we were just 15 by ourselves and go to Tower Records and Pier 39. I left California 16 years ago. 😢😳 Nick, does the rest of the city look just as bad? My stomach feels sick looking at this.
It doesn't, but some areas aren't far off, the greater problem is the culture and current government there. Their hands are tied because of SF's political culture. It won't change without State or Federal override. (Which were heading towards)
No there remain many beautiful areas in the city and and areas that used to be bad (south of market and some parts of the mission) that are much improved.
The T.L. is a rough area were stabbings are order of the day. Never walk that area alone nor without a weapon. Night, one shouldn't even think about it. Hella dangerous. I say this but every day and night walked those streets for 5 years just go home to my boat in Sausalito to just battle tweeker pirates trying to murder me. Had Hella fun battling much more dangerous than myself.
In 1978 I hiked down the coast from Oregon and got a room in the YMCA in the afternoon. Everything I'd seen seemed pretty much like Portland was. I took a nap then went out to eat. When I stepped out on Turk street it was dark and I felt like I had woke up in the twi-light zone.
I lived in the tenderloin area back in 2017 when I had just moved to San Fran. It's like just living in a jungle. It was very very scary. Drugs and needles everywhere, Dealers on every corner, homeless people using public streets for their toilet.
I feel so sad for all those people. I'm sure that's not how they imagined their life would be. No kid sits around thinking "man, I wanna be addicted to drugs and homeless when I grow up". It's heartbreaking
They refuse help. What is there to feel sad about? In my city you accept help or go to jail. A few weekends without their drugs nudges people to get the free rehab and subsequently a home, job training, new clothes and help finding meaningful employment. Vagrants are breaking the law, period.
@@tondalayakapoofnick2681 I just read a story about a woman, Jessica Dida, who lives there in the tenderloin. She does fentanyl and her mother uprooted her life to seek to save her, but she didn’t want to go. So I understand lacking sympathy for other people’s choices. I think the sadness comes from just knowing all these people are sick and we can’t help them get well and even they can’t help themselves.. also their city isn’t truly helping them. They’re offering housing, yeah. I read that much. But what I noticed heavily what they’re offering, is a safe way to continue to do drugs and Narcan kits to bring you back after you OD every day. And dealers are dealing in broad daylight .. why do they still get the luxury of being able to do so … why are they allowed to feed the sickness?
@@yaelshan2632 I agree. I don’t think we know how strong Fent addiction is until we’re in their shoes. Their minds don’t function the same. Can’t say they’re refusing treatment because they’re literally zombies for the drug. Maybe we should have a forced rehab system. Which many will say it violates your rights but if it’s gonna save you…
@Mike T I think they are plenty capable of caring for themselves in the way they know best - feeding their addictions. Unfortunately, the way, I think, most of them do this is through petty theft. They sell all sorts of weird goods on the streets, presumably to finance their fix. They'll do anything to get their drugs and if they're forced to, I'm sure they'd be able to steal to afford the bare sustenance they need to survive.
I worked at a soup kitchen (11:33) for almost 5 years. I remember a staff member telling me "If you want to see all the craziness that could happen in the world, go to the Tenderloin and just stand right in the middle for 10 minutes".
There are a lot of security cameras. Every day drug crimes aren't of concern; destroying the property of the well-to-do is of concern. Think about it though. If the bums were allowed to bum-rush the rich, SF would be no more...which of course be good for hippies, pimps, and debutantes, but definitely not for the working poor in the Tender-knob, and/or the hipster-richies clear up on the Knob.
I noticed that on the Kensington Avenue videos. I guess those people are too lazy to put them up on blocks and steal the wheels. In San Francisco it sounds like if you do find a place to park, roll your windows up, lock your car and walk away you’ll have a broken window and a gutted car in minutes.
I went to San Francisco in 2018 from New Zealand and I was shocked. I knew about the tenderloin and I avoided the area but went on a bus tour that did go through parts of the Tenderloin and the tour guide said that San Francisco people were proud of the Tenderloin...how can you be proud of that?? I have never seen such poverty in all my life, the eastern part of downtown Vancouver gets a really bad wrap but compared to San Francisco its night and day. Even around Fishermans wharf there were aggressive homeless people everywhere. You would think that San Francisco being such a huge international tourist destination that the goverment would try to clean up the city. I will never again visit San Francisco. Sounds like its gotten worse.
I wouldn't say we're proud of it. More like loosely saying "we're tolerant of them".. and I mean very loosely. We like to support the homeless, but enabling them to the extent that has been allowed, is not good for the homeless or the citizens. I work dangerously close to the tenderlion, but I keep my distance as much as humanly possible.
@@Eschatonx you people seem brainwashed by corrupt Democrats to think you should tolerate and be ok with living like this. Normal people know this is nuts. You're just their ATM
We live an hour away from San Francisco. We used to come there to spend the day, sometime stayed in a hotel for a few days. The last six, seven years we do not go there anymore because of the homeless problem. So sad !
Been viewing 👀 the last of the business hold out's in the more dilapidated areas. Now the locals no longer have employment. Not a problem-!!! The diabolical incompetent democratic party😈in Sacramento will tend to their needs-!!.🤗
Yep. They pay good money to have the sidewalks pressure washed, they would be there around 3:30-3:45 am when we were opening up the train stations 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
As recently as 2012, I walked the area with friends with no issues and only a small handful of street people. It was a bad place in the 80's when I used to go to North Beach to the clubs, but you could still walk there during the day and not be too creeped out. The last time I was there was probably 2014 and from what I've heard it's turned from "creepy and marginally risky" to outright dangerous.
Sad I used to love going to my graduate class in SF, accidentally walked into Tenderloin my first year looked like Resident Evil 2 I had to turn right around and walked away as fast as I could.
I accidentally walked through the tenderloin when I visited San Francisco a few years ago. Some guy nearly bumped into me as he was walking backwards out from a convenience store. He was yelling at someone inside and didn’t notice me. He was startled and so turned his anger toward me. I kept walking and didn’t turn around. He followed me for about 50 metres screaming at the back of my head. The whole street was watching. I stayed calm and held my girls hand and just put one foot in front of the other until he gave up on me. I’m from Australia. When my Aussie mates ask about visiting the USA, I just tell them to avoid San Francisco altogether. See the bridge, but don’t bother with the city, I say.
@@xenonronin7789 thank you for telling me that. When I visited California, Arizona, Montana, New York, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Canada (😂😂) I also found that San Francisco was not representative of your beautiful country filled with amazing people.
@@kellypond9377 I'm a 40 year old man that has lived in north Texas my entire life. I carry a fully loaded 9mm in my vehicle. We live in a town if around 1400 people. We have not had a murder or death in over 20 years. I agree with you if you hate the U.S. we don't want nor do we need you here. People like you would not survive here. Especially with your stuck up attitude looking down on people you know nothing about.
I’ve lived in the city and worked right there near the TL. Definitely a “mind your own business” type of place. You do that and you’ll be fine for the most part. Occasionally you’ll have to check somebody acting out of pocket if they get too close. I’d also always wear pants and a jacket or sweater. It’s one of those places you can touch nothing and still feel dirty when you get though it.
i mean this is the worst neighborhood and has always been bad. the rest of the city really doesnt look like this at all. but i understand what you mean.
For those who played Zelda: Ocarina of Time, I was in the Civic Center area in the day time. it seemed fine. But when it got dark, it seems as if monsters came out of the ground of Hyrule Fields. It's a terrifying place at night
Interesting how this area is a major hot bed for liberalism yet the disparity between rich and poor is overwhelming. I always thought that was their worst nightmare. What's up with that?
Old school liberals live in a dream world of denial and media brainwashing. They are willfully blind to what their world has become and most of them do NOT understand that commies are not only terrible people, but also not really liberal at all. They are authoritarian and they basically favor centralized government control with a sort of feudalistic economic structure--oppressed, brainwashed, impoverished masses and the elite billionaire class, nothing in between.
This just saddens me. I feel so sorry for the people. I can’t imagine the children who have to endure. I’d say around the 80’s early 90’s I went to the Loins to check it out once and never went back ever again. The smell was horrendous. And it was just so filthy and people were everywhere. It’s not a clean place. I had an Uncle who lived there. He went into a store and when he came out the store he dropped to the ground and died 😢. Just bad memories for me to ever go again.
I walk through the Tenderloin all the time, just because it's interesting to see how low people can go. It's very gritty, but I don't feel that unsafe. Most of the crime in the area is committed against people who are drunk and/or drugged up. The area got much worse after the pandemic, since the city shut down the shelters and more people ended up in tents on the streets.
Doesn't mean you should be fine with this going on in your city. It's inhumane. Would you want one of your loved ones in these kinds of situations? No.
@@riomabbayad6796 Why do you think I'm fine with it? I hate it, but videos like this give the impression that going into the Tenderloin means you'll automatically be robbed or killed. It's bad, but not that bad.
Bro, I spent 20 years working at Glide in the heart of the Tenderloin and I can say, there’s a lot of good people who live in this area. A lot of good families and people who care. It’s certainly not “a party”
Seems to me that every state in the Union HATES cars with California plates but people in CA love cars with out of state plates... better take the whole state off your bucket list until further notice... I don't think that'll be anytime soon.
It’s tragic that what was once a unique and charming big city has now become the armpit of the US. Hell, I’d rather go to Cleveland than set foot anywhere in Francisco today. I warn all my friends from overseas to avoid this snake pit by a wide margin when visiting the US.
I was eating in Burger King and a homeless man before I can start to eat grabbed my burger and said I’m very hungry I was shocked and just gave him my soda too and just bought another one for me. I visited an art event nearby I didn’t know that I was in the Tenderloin area.😱
I wish you'd stop conflating homelessness with drug use. Most of us are one paycheck away from being homeless, it doesn't mean we're one paycheck away from becoming drug users.
My friend and I ended up having to walk through the tenderloin at around 3am a few months back. Surprisingly it didn’t feel dangerous even though their was a lot of street activity. Even had some guy try and sell us a Walkman lol.
If you watch a lot of this Chanel , He is out of his element. It all looks dangerous if you grew up on the other side of it all . But I give him credit for trying to understand it and figure out a solution
Someone who’s honest about what really happens when you walk through the tenderloin! Nice change of pace. These people are harmless. Disgusting but harmless. They don’t have time to bother you they’re too busy being strung out or worrying about getting strung out.
I went to SF a couple years ago. Loved the old buildings and Chinese food, not to mention it was 65 degrees in the summertime which was cool. But coming from LA and having Skidrow, I don’t think I need to visit the bad part of SF lol
that's the catch, you DON'T have to be at the tenderloin for any reason at. all. The rest of the city is beautiful the most beautiful looking city in america you could cruise around the city for a day and not notice anything even remotely close to this
@@mosescuh3644 Right, you don't have to set a foot in TL. However, it is extremely difficult for unalarmed innocent tourists, say, who stay in the Downtown Hilton or Hotel Nikko, to avoid the neighborhood because it sits right across the street from them. The homeless situations have eroded deep into the city, not just TL though. Mission, the Haight, SOMA, and even Hayes Valley, all of which are known for trendy shops and restaurants, are now suffering because of the rampant filth and crime.
@@kenmishima3956 I feel u, every city has its areas to avoid and people can quickly learn where those areas are. This is a problem that exists in basically every major city in the country aside from a few cities. Yes the homelessness and drug use is apparent in many places like u mentioned in Mission, south of downtown many areas are like this, but what I tried to say is SF does have its problems, but me being there regularly for the past 5-6 years I notice the many good things about the city that outsiders and sometimes residents just ignore and call the whole place a shithole. There's lots of work to be done but since last year the city has been moving in the right direction all we need now is open our eyes and don't let the democrats do more damage
@@mosescuh3644 This city made a monumental mistake when it "literally" decided to let TL rotten to a point where no remedy can fix it. And it is right in the middle of the city next to the downtown hotel district. Tourists may not come back after seeing this filth. Are there other major cities that have ghettoes in the city center instead of the edge? What kind of a city that has right mind can let this happen, especially cities like San Francisco, the richest of all American urban cities? This is beyond shame.
The Tenderloin really isn't that bad. I've lived in the TL since 2013 and areas like the Bayview and Sunnydale are much worse. The key to navigating the TL is to mind your business and not to present yourself as a tourist. I work at 472 Ellis if you want a guided tour next time.
yea, this guy is straight pointing cameras in people's faces from his car and acts shocked that people weren't very receptive about it. Not justifying people throwing stuff at him, but I'm curious how people in a safe middle class suburb would react if I just started slowly driving down the streets with my windows down and blatantly pointing cameras at people and recording them while saying nothing. I'm sure they'll be really cool about it. 😎
I totally agree with you Kelly. I had a mail route in the tenderloin and i honestly never felt unsafe. In fact I got more Christmas tips from working class families then in any other district. One plus about the loin is the food!
The tenderloin looks like a utopia. People relaxing in the middle of the sidewalks. All sorts of trash to go through whenever you want. Drugs and booze everywhere. What more could you ask for. Guess that's why they call it Tenderloin. It's the best part of San Fran. The best cut.
Hey, Nick, look at to the São Paulo city's videos, here, on YT. You'll find a very similar conditions. I'm live here (Brazil) and I'm shocked about terrifying things in California, Philadelphia, NY city. When I saw the vids about, I swear, I thought that I'm walking in the streets of São Paulo or some places in Rio de Janeiro.
I liked walking through favelas and poor sections of cities in South America. Never be afraid to run and never be afraid to fight if that is the only option. From Bogota to Caracas to Rio. Also not good if you have no language skills. That was in the late 70s and 80s when street crime did not involve guns so much.
São Paulo is not as bad as the tenderloin. In fact, it is one of the wealthiest place to be in Brasil. I would compare the tenderloin to maybe Rio De Janeiro.
I worked at a senior center, which had a clinic and a 19 room residence at 315 Turk. The area was as you described, but what is never shown is the community of families where a bus comes to take children to school and many seniors depend on the free lunches and breakfasts that are given out by the charitable organizations in the area. Many of these people have “aged out” of what they thought their social security, pension or ability to work would allow them to live out their old age. Drugs are not only the problem there but our a major factor, but not usually for the seniors, who have nowhere else to go. One way to help this neighborhood is to provide housing for senior and disabled people.
