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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!"
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
@@HANUMAN7454 Thanks for the answer. First, I don't understand why someone would pay such higher prices when you can move 1 hour away and it is much cheaper. San Francisco has nice places I guess, but not the most beautiful city at all and with this trend and problems and places like in the Video I can't understand even more. Secondly, why people that are not rich or wealthy enough do not move away? Thridly I don't get why people in charge in this City are okay with that? Are they not worried their high prices won't be paid anymore with this stuff going on? My girlfriend visits SF at the moment for an internship. Bit worried. Also she told me she NEVER sees childern. Indeed weird place as you said. People are just dumb, if they wouldn't pay the landlords it would not work... !
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.
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.
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 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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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 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
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.
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 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.
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I grew up in Chicago ( 36 yrs ) I’m now 49 yrs old - living in Los Angeles - I’ve visited the Bay Area several times- walking through the tender loin reminds me of walking through a not so safe area of Chicago or New York - no one bothered me as I explored the tender loin - however- I can sense the danger that exists in the TL , you definitely need to be cautious in that area - especially at night !
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.
@Dannydolan88 At least there is some quality to zoo animals but these bums, it's like feral animals or mindless zombies you see in zombie apocalypse movies.
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 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.
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 !
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I lived in SF for a couple of years 2015-2016. I was making mad money working as a programmer there and the cost of living was not an issue. But I hated everything about SF. I just don't understand why would anyone want to live there. Now, I'm in a small town in Colorado and couldn't be happier.
I totally understand you dude. We used to come to hang out in the city in the early 2000s. These days we often travel to the coast but steer clear of the peninsula.
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
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.
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”
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.
In 2016 my teenage son and I did a guided group tour in West America. We also visited different parts, tourist parts, of San Fran. We stayed in a historic hotel near Union square. At night my son was awakened because of street noise, there was a gun shot, homeless people were running over the street with shopping cars, strange screaming. After this we were scared to walk in the neighborhood of the hotel in our free time. When we visited the city the next day we heard that strange screaming and yelling again. Our guide explaned that these were drugaddicts, many poor US ex soldiers, and we must try not to look at them. We saw many after this and it has changed our view of the USA. We were shocked, never experienced this. As we saw a few days later young drug addicts, hanging sick and out of the world, in LA, we were so glad to leave for home. This so beautiful country isn’t that great as we thought. Happy to first see the amazing nature, the big tourist and must see nature parcs and places but very sad to see the other Side in the bigger cities. It was a wake up call for my son. We never thought to see the USA as a third world country, so many poverty, homeless people, addicts, violence. Very sad! I hope change will come soon.
Unfortunately, you visited the two worst cities in the homeless crisis; San Francisco and Los Angeles. I think it’s crazy that there are companies that are offering tour guides to people in those cities.
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.
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@Kevin Souza I don't know why these poor people don't just move out of San Francisco, CA into some no-name low cost of living state like Oklahoma. I bet they'd be middle class there.
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.
I spent time in the Tenderloin in 1994. A small town Irish guy travelling around trying to discover the 1960's and in a Jack Kerouac state of mind. The place left a lasting impression on me. It was sordid and tragic but to a small town guy like me it was also mesmerising to get a glimpse into dystopia amidst the profane sounds and the smells and the cafes with their waffles and the coffee aroma. To me then as a visitor it seemed exotic and darkly enticing. The vivid tragicomedy of life played out by desperate characters seeking oblivion on the streets of San Francisco ☘🇮🇪☘
I ran away to the tenderloin at age 13. I was mesmerized at the utter depravity that surrounded me on a daily basis. There was danger, adventure and my own fantasy playing out as I walked along Haight and Ashbury, imagining Janice Joplin and all the greats smoking a joint and living "free." There were times that were so exciting and neat, yet that innocent child I was never belonged there in the first place.
A few years ago, I happened through there on foot while staying in SF. Nothing happened to me but it certainly left an impression. I didn't think things got like that in developed countries. It was like being in Mumbai or somewhere. The thing I hadn't really known/thought about was that it didn't feel like the streets were infested with dangerous gansters or thugs, it was just sick people. Really sick people, like they'd just tipped a mental hospital out and the patients were just laying around dazed and paraletic. I haven't seen anything like it since.
It's is sad. They are mainly drug or alcohol addicts. During the Pandemic, there were more deaths from fentanyl over-doses than from Covid. There are so many, they just let them sleep in tents in the sidewalks. THAT is pathetic!
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 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.
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 used to live there on Jones years ago. It was an edgy part of town, but if you minded your own business, nobody really bothered you, even at night. I was there 2 years ago and it was more edgy, but still not hyperbolic dangerous. Looking at this, the Tenderloin a few years ago was a nice town compared today. The Civic Center station wasn't bad not long ago, now it's the station you avoid at all costs. How bad things have gotten in just a few years.
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.
Can hardly believe what has happened to that city. I was staying at the edge of the Tenderloin for a conference back in 2007, but still walked all around the city, including through the Tenderloin, with my expensive pro camera gear without any issue. Seeing many of the places again in this video is just... unreal. Can't imagine I'd find a reason to ever go back. Glad I got to visit before it turned to sh*t.
@@seeesta4324 Eh....Obama is not as much to blame than the city leadership and District Attorneys in SF. They seem concerned, but at the most they just slap a Band-Aid on whatever problems there are in SF.
I loved living in the Tenderloin when I lived there. Sure you got to look out but the same as anywhere. I think Nick Johnson just likes to rag on the homeless and addicts more than they are . No wonder they are throwing bottles at him.😂😂😅😊
@@seeesta4324how’d you justify the dumpster of states that Kentucky, Alabama & Kansas are? Who you’re gonna blame for their poor condition considering democrat have never been elected there?☠️ oh & how’d you cope with the fact that most prosperous states are staunchly democratic (new england ones) truth hurts ik.
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 traveled to Oakland for work for the first time and had the bright idea of booking a hotel in SF to be safer. Stayed one block over from the tenderloin and accidentally walked into the neighborhood. Dressed in business casual (ie dress pants and long sleeve collared shirt) I walked through a long street of tents, a woman injecting her arm, a man with face sores, and human feces on the street. It was both incredibly sad and extremely frightening. Unfiltered reality.
The Tenderloin isn't that bad. The really bad places are the housing projects, particularly the Sunnydale Housing Project out near the Cow Palace. I knew somebody who lived in one of the many SRO (single-room-occupancy) hotels in the Tenderloin. This is where you find out how these people are exploited and can never get ahead. Because of rent control, you can't live in the hotel for more than 30 days, because that would make you legally the same as an apartment renter, and the hotel owner would lose his ability to raise prices as much as the market would bear. So the residents are kicked out of the hotel at the end of thirty days and can only come back in after a day or two. They have to remove all their possessions. The hotels aren't cheap. In 1998, it was $350 to $400 a week for a small room with one bed and no bathroom; now it must be a lot more. As for what they're like, the following description would be typical. You walk up to the hotel entrance. It is blocked by rough looking guys who you have to ask to let you by. They will if they feel like it. Then you come to an iron gate with an intercom. The desk clerk will buzz you in -- if he feels like it. You climb some stairs to the entrance lobby. You smell curry (the owners are all from India). After being looked over by the sullen desk clerk, you're allowed to go see your friend. You notice a toilet paper dispenser in the lobby with a roll of toilet paper. Residents have to get their toilet paper from the lobby. There isn't any in the common area bathrooms. You notice that the walls that separate the "rooms" are almost paper thin, as are their doors...
It isn't. This is way over the top! I've walked through there many times! Just mind your own business and nobody will bother you! But, I live in San Fran so I know how to navigate!
No, the Tenderlion is and always has been really bad. But, you're right, Sunnydale is really bad too, although I heard it's not as bad there as in the past because lots of Asian families have bought homes there and moved in?
It’s beyond sad. There were unsafe places years ago but homelessness is the issue. I used to run Bay to Breakers and I expected rough on the Hyde street hill. Actually it was lovely. A couple of people passed out. I want my city back.
We are originally from CA. When I was a child I really loved going to the city. Through the years the crime, how dirty it is, the smells etc made it unappealing and just not safe. Sad to see how bad it has become. We are blessed that we left the state. We now live in a beautiful clean state in the south.
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I came to this country as an immigrant 38 yrs ago. I saw very few homeless people than and so I promised myself to get a job work hard, DON'T BE LAZY, be patient and strive to be the best. Coming from a third world country then moving to the richest country in the vorld, to me, there's no excuse for this. Today I own a house, 3 cars and a good paying job because all I had to do was work, the bottom line!!!
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.
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.
Such a sad commentary I remember going to market Street in the 90s and it never being crazy like that even 1995 or 1996 just really bad. Thanks for updating everyone.
2 years ago when I visited San Francisco, I was staying at the Marriott, on Vaness Ave., and when I walked Gary St in the afternoon was one thing yet at around 8pm or 9pn, that wasn't the time to be outside in that area, realizing, I had up to about 5 people following me, luckily, the hotel was near and managed to get inside quickly. 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 Great Video!
I was there in 1969 - 71... Gary Street and Eddy Street were prostitutes locations. One street were male prostitutes and the other were female prostitutes. It was well known fact back then.
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 visited around 2018, walked to get a great bahn mi from Saigon sandwich around 6pm, it’s right in this area. There was a homeless man sleeping in front of their shop I nearly had to step over to get inside. What a shame for the shop. Night was falling upon us and I saw some humans who looked exactly like wondering zombies. I walked down east on Turk St to head back to my hostel on the east side of downtown. I soon realized what I got myself into.. but kept walking forward with confidence as if I knew where I was. I had a $1500 camera around my shoulder but I wasn’t taking photos to draw attention to myself. I saw numerous drug deals, needles in arms and piles of human waste. Thankfully no one talked or bothered me and I was out on the other side.
I lived in the Tenderloin from 2011-2019 as a young white girl (you pass by my building twice in this vid!) I didn't have any problems for the most part. But it did get pretty bad that last year...just as far as tents taking up majority of the sidewalk and sometimes having a very narrow walkway with sketchy people. Otherwise I just walked through with purpose and keeping a very "bored" face. I "only" had to run for my safety once, and was nearly mugged twice. Pretty good for 9 years LOL. Despite the grim atmosphere I loved only paying 1500/mo max for a 1br apt, and being 10-30min walking distance to everything I needed. Sadly I don't think I'd be happy there any longer. I'm still grieving my city life but this video helps me let go. Its not quite like the home I know. Not to mention I would HATE those crosswalk lights where you can't cross any direction and have to wait for a 4 way light. Waiting for a crosswalk is the WORST when someone creepy is shouting at you
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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...
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Keep going up. Stay clean. Good luck!
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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
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Yeah and you are part of the problem to!
They’ll throw you in jail for unpaid parking tickets but the government let’s people put up tents and give them hypodermic needles.
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.
YEP! they have a rich exit tax now
You'll get more of the behaviour you reward, so I fail to see how this improves in the short term. Quite the reverse.
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.
@@whendoigettosayfuck The homeless don't pee or poo any more than any other human being, but are denied sanitation and hygenical facilities.
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.
You are just lazy. This is America the land of opportunity. It's not the government's job to raise you and feed you for life.
I live on the same street between Hyde and Larkin. Ofarrel used to be relatively clean, but now it is garbage. I'm glad you got out.
So, have you returned to your home country yet-???🤔
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.
I left 20 years ago wish I never moved there
@@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.
@Larry David I liked the food and gg park wasn't worth cost.
The trans rights flag hanging over a homeless encampment is the most Californian thing I've ever seen.
As a trans woman Is embarrassing
@@senorita889 good
All paid for by the CA taxpayer.
LooooooL
@CJ DEL MAR explains the drug addiction and mental Illness
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.
I'm still wondering why you lived in TL to attend Cal. Was this common among students?
@@Don2006 easy BART access and my residency was at UCSF medical center
@@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
S B... Thanks to your thoughtful observations. And getting free stuff.. where does this narrator get his information? Exactly who gives what?
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...
Are there any outreach programs there?
@@davetorres7029 TONS
@@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
whyd you love it?
@@billyb4790 excitement from chaos, better than any drama on TV
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.
Welcome to Amurdica it's Hell on Earth.
@@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
@Michelle Spain has a higher homeless rate than Cali even I doubt it
My first visit there from the UK, I might as well had a flashing arrow pointing down at me 🤣
I can see why Nick arrived in Portland and was like ‘Yeah, this is OK. What’s the fuss about?’ Oakland and SF is next, next, next level!
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.
The west coast has turned into a massive toilet bowl.
@@rsohlich1 I know. What makes the west coast a haven for the lowlife anyways???!
@@sm3675 liberals
@@sm3675 people on the west coast are Legends within their own minds.
He got beat up and got robbed twice cause he looked like prey. You can’t look scared walking through. That’s how they know your an outsider
They can smell fear right away.
James Barry are you related to Randy Barry
@@patriciawitherspoon2344 I might be , haven’t seen part of my family in a long time due to them moving out of the city
@@SF49er415 ok how are you doing James barry
Well then don't walk through there then
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.
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.
@matthewpritchard1720 it's not that deep man
@@assassin8636
I think every homeless person has a different story.
The world is desensitized!!!
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.
@@yennguyen-uj3ri Aww, lol... If I were there, I would have made sure that you and your husband returned to your place, safely.
@@anthonyb7571 what are you a guardian angel or something
This is what happens when you vote for the Marxist Democrat party people better wake up
@@yennguyen-uj3ri I bet that was scary.
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.
It's pretty clear that Capitalism is a failure in America. Red State, Blue State, doesn't matter. Just different forms of desperation.
@@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.
Mental illness explains the last over 50 years of this out door violent ward and add drugs/dogs/fecal matter and urin that's reality down there.
@@Bdub1952 foolish and unsubstantiated comment. You seriously need to read some history.
This is Nancy Pelosi's utopia.
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.
@@damonlee226 Nick is a wuss.
@@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.
@@daveyrogers7336 totally agree I've been to sf my bro won't even go to that part I'm from Indiana myself no need to have his life in danger
welcome to Democracy, protects criminals
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!"
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!
Visions of turds bombarding my head , oh God help THE USA
@@roselee4445 Hahaha! Thank you, as a master toilet mechanic, [plumber], I needed that.
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 !
@@AbkRawdude really? Interesting. But you have a point. Deterioration is a form of change.
I lived there in the late 70's. So much wonderful history. I hate to see what's happening to our cities.
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.
Follow whose in Politics at the moment and you'll see why San Francisco is such a dump now. Facts speak for themselves. San Francisco is gross
It hurts me so much to see what this country is becoming
there is less pleasure visiting a city that is suffering. It ruins us all. want everyone happy and safe
It ain’t the whole country, just places that are infested with and run by leftists.
Thank the liberals.
Not the Country just certain Liberal cities. Kinda like Sodom and Gamora.
In my opinion, the most sure way of correcting our heading is by embracing non-fiction as much as possible; in every way possible.
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
Why didn’t you grab her, put her in your vehicle, then take her home with you? I guess this will be haunting you for years to come.
Sorry for your loss
@Louise McCabe nothing wrong with honesty 🤷♂️
Condolences
She wanted it in the end. It is sad but she was too far gone. In the end, you did not matter. Her drugs mattered.
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.
BS. Something as vicious as a lye attack would have been on the news, Ive never heard of a random lye attack here... you're full of it.
@@rum-ham what the hell os lye??
The lefty mayor of SF should name this the Tent-erloin instead so that it makes more sense.
London Breed is making a case to be the one of the worse mayors in SF history
Trump towns. They will clear now he's gone.
@@brianfuller757 they say she useless lol
Don’t blame the current mayor. The tenderloin has ALWAYS been an eyesore and a major problem.
For real!🍦💩
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.
Very sad.
@@at2130 yup. The stip clubs bouncers and the bar bouncers actually help regulate the place. The tech came here with money and clueless.
@@at2130 why can you please explain ?
@@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.
@@HANUMAN7454 Thanks for the answer.
First, I don't understand why someone would pay such higher prices when you can move 1 hour away and it is much cheaper. San Francisco has nice places I guess, but not the most beautiful city at all and with this trend and problems and places like in the Video I can't understand even more.
Secondly, why people that are not rich or wealthy enough do not move away?
Thridly I don't get why people in charge in this City are okay with that? Are they not worried their high prices won't be paid anymore with this stuff going on?
My girlfriend visits SF at the moment for an internship. Bit worried. Also she told me she NEVER sees childern. Indeed weird place as you said. People are just dumb, if they wouldn't pay the landlords it would not work... !
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.
We’re from Philly and we’re just there this week, we said the same thing . Most of SF is fine and clean. The bad areas were bad but not big .
Here's where they should relocate the alleged whitehouse. I mean. If the shoe fits. 😐
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.
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.
you've only seen 3 homeless in San Diego?
@@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.
They said the same thing about New York city 30 years ago. Nevermind the 70's and 80's. You can never tell what might happen....
@@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.
How do you live in San Diego & only see three homeless?
being homeless is NOT a party
These people's chose to be homeless DRUGS is there priority
@@lauracunningham8093addiction is a public health issue, u look dumb
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.
you can thank the tech companies that succeded in raising rents and eliminating rent control. an average techy makes 14k per month.
@@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...
It is not Poverty. It is their life style.
The only way I would walk in the Tenderloin area is to move fast and with a purpose. And that is to get out of there as fast as possible.
With a dirty coat, a limp and a shopping cart you could film the whole thing at ground level I bet.
I recall characters on the CBS series 🚔 Nash Bridges, 1996 saying how bad the Tenderloin area of SF 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.
@@ImMyBloveds where u stay so I can visit u
"Some bums just threw a bottle at my car, I think I'll go back!"
Lol.
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.
Honestly would you want to be recorded by some complete stranger driving by!!! Lol
u really believe that?
@@craigbannister7826 agreed
@@quasarearth8346 Oppressed by their own laziness
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.
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, the rest of the city doesn't look as bad. Not even close. It's one of the most expensive cities in the world.
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.
u can't go home again virginia
You get what you voted for.
Nothing heartbreaking about unaccountable drug users on the streets, they want to be there. Grow up and accept reality.
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".
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.
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
Well then, how am I gonna get my drugs if I don't have eye contact with them, huh? Well?
@@patrickbyrne9282 dang I didn't think about that, carry on then 😜
Yes, it's "staggering" how many people stagger about the Zombie Apocalypse that is the Tenderloin 24/7/365.
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.
From NZ, at least these people are free.
@@angelprotector8164 Yup the way things are going In NZ with comrade Ardern at the helm...freedom is a distant memory.
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.
It's who's in charge
@@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
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.
The Asians brought the fent there
The day someone steps in to clean up this mess is the day frogs will do fractions …
It's unbelievable that the government is letting this kind of things to happen. Sad that we innocent people are the one being hurt by it.
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.
Thank pelosi
Some states vote Democrats they get what they vote for .... California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey and etc...
@@esila4392 And yet, they'll keep that cackling witch in office for life...
No one is innocent. Everyone is guilty of something.
The Tenderloin looks like
a real life scene out of the
dystopian computer video game
Grand Theft Auto 😱
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.
That sounds like a song...
SF Tenderloin is where people go right before they become zombies then they stay forever.
Portland, Oregon is starting to become San Francisco in many similar ways...don't move there.
It's the whole west coast at this point.
I left as soon as Portlandians let their AntiFa brats destroy the streets. Best decision I made.
Economy collapse and civil war is coming over us, be prepare for the beginnings of the new word of Krypton in United State of America. (2020/2070) Kent007: For Your Eye Only 👁 (KryptoS/CIA)
I grew up in the bay area in the 80's and 90's it used to be so nice. Now it literally looks like a 3rd world country.😬
I moved to San Francisco from Tennessee in 75 and it was so nice. The government’s is Satan.
Specially all of the east bay from hayward all the way to antioch lol
@@mosescuh3644 you can thank gentrification for that
All urban areas of California are turning into 3rd world countries and our governator keeps inviting illegals in
@@Miss_Cali cause the citizens keep doing drugs
Could you imagine spending 1.5 million dollars on a place and have to live in that filth?
That would be cheap. 1.5 is nothing for this shithole
Could you imagine if we were more kind and helped poor people out?
Instead of shaming them.
I'm RETIRED US Navy and I thanked you for Sharing this Video as my recollection to my old Hometown ❤😢 God Bless Everyone 🙌 🙏 ❤️
Thank you for your service and bless you too Sir!
I grew up in Chicago ( 36 yrs ) I’m now 49 yrs old - living in Los Angeles - I’ve visited the Bay Area several times- walking through the tender loin reminds me of walking through a not so safe area of Chicago or New York - no one bothered me as I explored the tender loin - however- I can sense the danger that exists in the TL , you definitely need to be cautious in that area - especially at night !
it’s no where near the worse area in San Francisco. Sunnydale projects the worse area in sf
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.
This is so sad. By the way, Nick, were they throwing bottles at your car because they knew you were filming them?
He couldn't figure that out
even worse than north korea
@Danny Dolan they’re not majestic like zoo animals
@Dannydolan88 At least there is some quality to zoo animals but these bums, it's like feral animals or mindless zombies you see in zombie apocalypse movies.
@Danny Dolan yup , proubley knew he was filming and did not appreciate it
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?
@@tondalayakapoofnick2681 Just sharing my opinion and I respect yours, I hope you have a great day , 🤎✨
@@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.
This is a horror film holy shit.
We spent about 5 minutes there. Remind me of an old movie Escape from New York.
@@Jeremyho439 😳😳😳
You would not BELIEVE the crap I would see out my window In The alley behind my apartment there bruh.
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.
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-!!.🤗
I lived in SF for a couple of years 2015-2016. I was making mad money working as a programmer there and the cost of living was not an issue. But I hated everything about SF. I just don't understand why would anyone want to live there. Now, I'm in a small town in Colorado and couldn't be happier.
We're happy you're gone too
sf is heaven minus the tenderloin area
Yeah that’s just you
@Angel Jose Mendoza amigo pepe Mendoza como esta
I totally understand you dude. We used to come to hang out in the city in the early 2000s. These days we often travel to the coast but steer clear of the peninsula.
I think Philly Kensington is worse. However, I don't recall anyone throwing a bottle at anyone by them.
Kenzo wasn't as bad as it is now when I was a kid. It really got out of controll the last ten years. Now it is very comparable to the Tenderloin.
This looks clean compared to parts of LA.
Yeah that part of Philly is more like skid row in LA the Bay Area homelessness and drug usage it’s all over not just in one area though
@@bigonutz2898 The homelessness in LA is also all over. More than half the Nation’s homeless are in California.
@@vinylrichie007 Oakland is a different world than the rest of the Bay Area and LA that’s including crime
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
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.
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”
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.
@@mosescuh3644 yup
In 2016 my teenage son and I did a guided group tour in West America. We also visited different parts, tourist parts, of San Fran. We stayed in a historic hotel near Union square. At night my son was awakened because of street noise, there was a gun shot, homeless people were running over the street with shopping cars, strange screaming. After this we were scared to walk in the neighborhood of the hotel in our free time. When we visited the city the next day we heard that strange screaming and yelling again. Our guide explaned that these were drugaddicts, many poor US ex soldiers, and we must try not to look at them. We saw many after this and it has changed our view of the USA. We were shocked, never experienced this. As we saw a few days later young drug addicts, hanging sick and out of the world, in LA, we were so glad to leave for home. This so beautiful country isn’t that great as we thought. Happy to first see the amazing nature, the big tourist and must see nature parcs and places but very sad to see the other Side in the bigger cities. It was a wake up call for my son. We never thought to see the USA as a third world country, so many poverty, homeless people, addicts, violence. Very sad! I hope change will come soon.
Unfortunately, you visited the two worst cities in the homeless crisis; San Francisco and Los Angeles. I think it’s crazy that there are companies that are offering tour guides to people in those cities.
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.
Why does he bother having jeans on if they're gonna literally be on your knees. Practicly speaking sounds awful.
I don't understand it either. Makes no sense even wearing jeans if their at your feet
Supposedly it signals to male dominants that one is sexually a male submissive, and prepared to receive vigorous sexual attentions from a male dominant. How it became so "cool" is beyond my ability to grasp.
I think he was out of his mind on drugs so he probably just doesn't give a crap or he was about to take a crap on the side walk
Just an observation but everyone seems to have a nice car in these awful areas.
Why would they park there, who cars are they.
The ones that don't care. As long as they have their precious $$$$
@Kevin Souza I don't know why these poor people don't just move out of San Francisco, CA into some no-name low cost of living state like Oklahoma. I bet they'd be middle class there.
@@EclipseMints08 They would be homeless without a job in Oklahoma and couldn't survive the winter. That is why most homeless stay in California
Those are employees cars you see
Well damn, San Fran is off my bucket list. That’s saying a lot considering I live right outside of Detroit.
Stay out of Downtown it’s actually really nice.
F America turning to trash with this Democracy, no where safe anymore ...save ur money travel to Europe
Detroit isn't on my bucket list and I live in the Bay Area.
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.
@@howiescott5865 I only like California and Hawaii plates.
Been to SF, I honestly felt safer walking in the worst area of New York City than I did walking through the worst area of San Francisco
Thats cause you str8 puzzy
I spent time in the Tenderloin in 1994. A small town Irish guy travelling around trying to discover the 1960's and in a Jack Kerouac state of mind. The place left a lasting impression on me. It was sordid and tragic but to a small town guy like me it was also mesmerising to get a glimpse into dystopia amidst the profane sounds and the smells and the cafes with their waffles and the coffee aroma. To me then as a visitor it seemed exotic and darkly enticing. The vivid tragicomedy of life played out by desperate characters seeking oblivion on the streets of San Francisco ☘🇮🇪☘
I had a very similar experience in 09/10
Sitting at my sixed floor window at post and Taylor I used to see what I thought was very entertaining...
Try harder.
That was nearly 30 years ago. How much worse has it become? From what I understand, it's been the last few years that it's gotten worse.
@@boat6float that's true....maybe it's a lot worse since 1994 🔥
I ran away to the tenderloin at age 13. I was mesmerized at the utter depravity that surrounded me on a daily basis. There was danger, adventure and my own fantasy playing out as I walked along Haight and Ashbury, imagining Janice Joplin and all the greats smoking a joint and living "free." There were times that were so exciting and neat, yet that innocent child I was never belonged there in the first place.
A few years ago, I happened through there on foot while staying in SF. Nothing happened to me but it certainly left an impression. I didn't think things got like that in developed countries. It was like being in Mumbai or somewhere. The thing I hadn't really known/thought about was that it didn't feel like the streets were infested with dangerous gansters or thugs, it was just sick people. Really sick people, like they'd just tipped a mental hospital out and the patients were just laying around dazed and paraletic. I haven't seen anything like it since.
I know
It's is sad. They are mainly drug or alcohol addicts. During the Pandemic, there were more deaths from fentanyl over-doses than from Covid. There are so many, they just let them sleep in tents in the sidewalks. THAT is pathetic!
That's the saddest part. Thanks Regan :)
Bombay is from a developed nation, India.
The British stole billions of resources during their tyrannical rule.
Look up videos of Kensington Ave in Philadelphia. Doesn't get any worse than that
Remember the movie Escape from New York?
Maybe they just need to fence the area in to keep the people outside the fence safe.
Good idea
I accidently got off the bus in that area as a tourist. I just pretended I was tweaking until another bus showed up.
Tweaker
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.
The Tenderloin is a big Favella! Lugar Louco!
Tricia macedo how is it in Sao Paulo Brazil I've got a feance down there in Brazil
Sao Paulo Brazil an south American I've read on is a beautiful place
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 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.
San Francisco is not the U.S. nor does it represent the majority of our country.
@@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.
@@xenonronin7789 -- and the Tenderloin does not represent San Francisco.
Avoid the USA, all of it. Too many young guys with guns, it's lawless, crime rules, and they hate each other ...why would anyone want to visit the US?
@@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.
Never let your ego get in the way of your safety. That's one dangerous area! Thank you for sharing this video.
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 used to live there on Jones years ago. It was an edgy part of town, but if you minded your own business, nobody really bothered you, even at night. I was there 2 years ago and it was more edgy, but still not hyperbolic dangerous. Looking at this, the Tenderloin a few years ago was a nice town compared today. The Civic Center station wasn't bad not long ago, now it's the station you avoid at all costs. How bad things have gotten in just a few years.
It is extremely sad that San Francisco has drastically deteriorated throughout the years! 😭
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.
that was nancy pelosi who threw empty vodka bottle at you nick
🤣🤣🤣
90 proof Nancy! Yep it was her.
Chilled in her $50K refrigerator
Yeah, a Jeni's ice cream carton wouldn't have shattered like that.
U ha ve issues don t u
The carmera makes things look better than they really are
Can hardly believe what has happened to that city. I was staying at the edge of the Tenderloin for a conference back in 2007, but still walked all around the city, including through the Tenderloin, with my expensive pro camera gear without any issue. Seeing many of the places again in this video is just... unreal. Can't imagine I'd find a reason to ever go back. Glad I got to visit before it turned to sh*t.
Obama 2008 to 2016 is what happened. Lawless I hate America policies.
Obama turned the US into a crap hole and Biden is finishing what he started
@@seeesta4324 Eh....Obama is not as much to blame than the city leadership and District Attorneys in SF. They seem concerned, but at the most they just slap a Band-Aid on whatever problems there are in SF.
I loved living in the Tenderloin when I lived there. Sure you got to look out but the same as anywhere. I think Nick Johnson just likes to rag on the homeless and addicts more than they are . No wonder they are throwing bottles at him.😂😂😅😊
@@seeesta4324how’d you justify the dumpster of states that Kentucky, Alabama & Kansas are? Who you’re gonna blame for their poor condition considering democrat have never been elected there?☠️ oh & how’d you cope with the fact that most prosperous states are staunchly democratic (new england ones) truth hurts ik.
If i was the mayor i would have this place cleaned up in 24 hours.
Please explain how.
Send in Paul Kersey and the McManus brothers.
If I had a dollar for every time I heard that....
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 agree. Voluntarily kiving like this? And still voting D. Smh. Wth is wrong with people
As someone who lived on Fredrick street in the 60s I can’t believe they let this city go to Hell
I traveled to Oakland for work for the first time and had the bright idea of booking a hotel in SF to be safer. Stayed one block over from the tenderloin and accidentally walked into the neighborhood. Dressed in business casual (ie dress pants and long sleeve collared shirt) I walked through a long street of tents, a woman injecting her arm, a man with face sores, and human feces on the street. It was both incredibly sad and extremely frightening. Unfiltered reality.
The Tenderloin isn't that bad. The really bad places are the housing projects, particularly the Sunnydale Housing Project out near the Cow Palace. I knew somebody who lived in one of the many SRO (single-room-occupancy) hotels in the Tenderloin. This is where you find out how these people are exploited and can never get ahead. Because of rent control, you can't live in the hotel for more than 30 days, because that would make you legally the same as an apartment renter, and the hotel owner would lose his ability to raise prices as much as the market would bear. So the residents are kicked out of the hotel at the end of thirty days and can only come back in after a day or two. They have to remove all their possessions.
The hotels aren't cheap. In 1998, it was $350 to $400 a week for a small room with one bed and no bathroom; now it must be a lot more. As for what they're like, the following description would be typical. You walk up to the hotel entrance. It is blocked by rough looking guys who you have to ask to let you by. They will if they feel like it. Then you come to an iron gate with an intercom. The desk clerk will buzz you in -- if he feels like it. You climb some stairs to the entrance lobby. You smell curry (the owners are all from India). After being looked over by the sullen desk clerk, you're allowed to go see your friend. You notice a toilet paper dispenser in the lobby with a roll of toilet paper. Residents have to get their toilet paper from the lobby. There isn't any in the common area bathrooms. You notice that the walls that separate the "rooms" are almost paper thin, as are their doors...
Wow I can't imagine
Why are the indian managers ok running trashy places
It isn't. This is way over the top! I've walked through there many times! Just mind your own business and nobody will bother you! But, I live in San Fran so I know how to navigate!
Yeah but there's a difference between Sunnydale and the tenderloin Sunnydale is the hood and the tenderloin is the ghetto
No, the Tenderlion is and always has been really bad. But, you're right, Sunnydale is really bad too, although I heard it's not as bad there as in the past because lots of Asian families have bought homes there and moved in?
The TL has been skid row crazy for decades, this is nothing new.
It’s beyond sad. There were unsafe places years ago but homelessness is the issue. I used to run Bay to Breakers and I expected rough on the Hyde street hill. Actually it was lovely. A couple of people passed out. I want my city back.
We are originally from CA. When I was a child I really loved going to the city. Through the years the crime, how dirty it is, the smells etc made it unappealing and just not safe.
Sad to see how bad it has become. We are blessed that we left the state. We now live in a beautiful clean state in the south.
Am coming to stay at ur place. I only need 1 room n we'll discuss z rent later. Plz install a bumgun as i found it weird to use TP. I will cook food as am a chef n will also do ur house chores. See u in 1 week.
Blame the Dems!
Blame the democratic party
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Won't be clean when the dems move the illegals were u live you'll see
They saved a tent for Pelosi and Newsome.
Nah she moved to Florida to soak up the freedom she destroyed in California.
Yeah, exactly.
Do you say the same about tents being saved for Republican politicians in the epicentre of the opioid epidemic in West Virginia?
I came to this country as an immigrant 38 yrs ago. I saw very few homeless people than and so I promised myself to get a job work hard, DON'T BE LAZY, be patient and strive to be the best. Coming from a third world country then moving to the richest country in the vorld, to me, there's no excuse for this. Today I own a house, 3 cars and a good paying job because all I had to do was work, the bottom line!!!
Bravo, Nick! This is a BRILLIANT production. You are a very talented story-teller.
Yep, I have to go onto SF once a month for a Union board meeting. SF is a a girl that looks good from a far, but far from good. Once your in the city.
SF is really America's gangrenous butt hole.
SO TRUE. It looks beautiful from the Berkeley hills or Marin County
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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.
@@DoubleDash28 lmfao
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.
@@fixpacifica how about at night? That's got to be a risk.
We need to give up on this idea that we can save the junkies. We can't. Its time to round them all up. They will never come voluntarily.
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.
Such a sad commentary I remember going to market Street in the 90s and it never being crazy like that even 1995 or 1996 just really bad. Thanks for updating everyone.
2 years ago when I visited San Francisco, I was staying at the Marriott, on Vaness Ave., and when I walked Gary St in the afternoon was one thing yet at around 8pm or 9pn, that wasn't the time to be outside in that area, realizing, I had up to about 5 people following me, luckily, the hotel was near and managed to get inside quickly. 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 Great Video!
It's scary out there
I was there in 1969 - 71... Gary Street and Eddy Street were prostitutes locations. One street were male prostitutes and the other were female prostitutes. It was well known fact back then.
@@captseamus Oh Wow! Even in those times too! Thanks for the history!
@@captseamus Something for everybody!
@@captseamus damn Tenderloin district was still dirty long time ago.
Also, you went in the daytime. Everyone know the freaks come out at night😊
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 visited around 2018, walked to get a great bahn mi from Saigon sandwich around 6pm, it’s right in this area. There was a homeless man sleeping in front of their shop I nearly had to step over to get inside. What a shame for the shop. Night was falling upon us and I saw some humans who looked exactly like wondering zombies. I walked down east on Turk St to head back to my hostel on the east side of downtown. I soon realized what I got myself into.. but kept walking forward with confidence as if I knew where I was. I had a $1500 camera around my shoulder but I wasn’t taking photos to draw attention to myself. I saw numerous drug deals, needles in arms and piles of human waste. Thankfully no one talked or bothered me and I was out on the other side.
You handled yourself well by acting with confidence, not showing fear and getting out of there.
VERY BAD IDEA to walk around there with a $1500 camera unless it was well hidden.
I lived in the Tenderloin from 2011-2019 as a young white girl (you pass by my building twice in this vid!) I didn't have any problems for the most part. But it did get pretty bad that last year...just as far as tents taking up majority of the sidewalk and sometimes having a very narrow walkway with sketchy people. Otherwise I just walked through with purpose and keeping a very "bored" face. I "only" had to run for my safety once, and was nearly mugged twice. Pretty good for 9 years LOL. Despite the grim atmosphere I loved only paying 1500/mo max for a 1br apt, and being 10-30min walking distance to everything I needed. Sadly I don't think I'd be happy there any longer. I'm still grieving my city life but this video helps me let go. Its not quite like the home I know. Not to mention I would HATE those crosswalk lights where you can't cross any direction and have to wait for a 4 way light. Waiting for a crosswalk is the WORST when someone creepy is shouting at you
ONLY 1500?? And why wait for a crosswalk especially in a place like this? just cross..
@@borisvorik747 Sometimes you can, sometimes it's risky. Also my old apartment went for 2800 after I moved out.
How was stating that you were young and white relevant to what you were talking about ?