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Originally Posted by destroycreate
The SF situation for me got so bad it was definitely a factor for me moving away in 2015. Seattle has a homeless problem but it's far more contained. Perhaps it's because I lived in SoMa, but I was just not down with the rampant lawlessness and disgusting behavior that SFPD turns a blind eye to. Finding someone shooting up in my car, getting my car broken into 8x in 6 years, feeling physically threatened on MUNI all too often got super old. The homeless in SF are much more aggressive and unstable than anywhere else I've visited. My heart goes out to them, but at the end of the day, when it comes to substance abuse, you to take responsibility for your own life--you have to want to get better. Now for the mental illness component--FUCK REAGAN (and capitalism). We need more mental health resources all around in this country that are free or affordable.
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If more people would equivocate addictions, as addictions are addictions are addictions, there'd be more understanding of why some of these people can't turn it around.
Like I said to my pulmonologist when, diagnosed with COPD, and after cutting down to a half-pack a day, he said: You need to quit! And my response: Give me your car keys, from this day forward you will not drive a car anymore, you're going to give up this very dangerous addiction to driving/owning a car. Next time I come here, I want to see your bus pass!
I read of a company out east, who had to reject 50% of its applicants, for merely not passing a drug test, jobs paid roughly $13 an hour. And did they test them for pharmaceutical drugs or alcohol usage?
The obstacles to getting off the streets today can be formidable. This wouldn't be happening in Japan, with its chronic shortage of labor, due to their resistance to bringing in immigrants, 1.2 applicants per job. Now! How many obstacles do they throw in the way of these 1.2 applicants, employers starving for workers?