IMO there’s kind of a lot. I live a few minutes south of SF on the peninsula and last weekend I walked around the waterfront and the mission with friends. I was struck that I encountered visible piles and marks as well as smells pretty much everywhere we walked. Like, it’s really a lot of public shit compared to any town a few minutes south of the city.

FWIW I blame systemic problems not the individuals responsible. But the problem was viscerally apparent to me.

Title of link: Behold The Shit Map: Mapping San Francisco’s 132,562 Cases Of Human Feces

http://www.abcbusinessnews.com/2019/04/behold-the-shit-map-m...

I reported some shit for the city to clean up. They never cleaned it up. It just sat there for weeks decaying. After weeks, there was only a little bit left... probably ended up on someone's shoe.

Early in the pandemic, the city looked worse. Now it looks somewhat cleaner but still depopulated.

There are some tourists but surprisingly many of the people walking around at Bay Area locals. The tourists are still so few that you can recognize them upon seeing them again.

I've lived in SOMA, the Mission, and Russian hill to name a few... there is a lot of shit here my dude, far more than should exist for a city with this much wealth.

There is literal shit everywhere. A walk down any block needs one eye kept on where you step. If it's not human shit it's dog shit because pet owners can't seem to be bothered.

There are few and dwindling public bathrooms to the point where gig workers struggle to find facilities[1] while they're out there doing critical work. Rich NIMBYs believe that bathrooms (and not the sky-high rents they seek) encourage people to become homeless, so they've successfully shut down the emergency facilities opened up during the pandemic[2].

1. https://www.vice.com/en/article/884xyp/gig-workers-have-nowh...

2. https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/San-Franc...

I went to a conference in SF once and walked up and down Market Street twice a day for a week, and never saw a single pile of shit!

I was attacked by a disturbed man who chased and pulled a (probably fake) gun on me, but no piles of shit whatsoever!

It's not the first time that you see a man defecate on the street that gets you. It's the second time.

Speaking from experience of daily driving through Tenderloin.

the passed out homeless dude covered in (presumably his own) shit at the Stonestown muni stop not 2 hours ago would disagree with you.

True, my comment was a bit loaded but 'shit' in my comment was not really mean excrements... I used it to mean 'problems' in a hard, loaded way like 'This is the shit I have to deal with' with some parallels to homelessness but if you read my comment again, it doesn't really say what you think it does

:-) I think you might not be watching your step carefully enough.