Here's The Tenderloin, The WORST Neighborhood In San Francisco. Heartbreaking.

How did we get to this point everyone?
Ask anyone who lives or has lived in the Bay Area about the Tenderloin and you’ll get some pretty interesting reactions. Yuck. Gross. Scary. Weird. Heartbreaking, disturbing, tragic, dire, and heart wrenching. It’s bad here and it has a terrible reputation. Whenever you hear about homelessness and crazy people and drug addicts in San Francisco, this place is the center of it all. It’s worldwide famous for being a place of misery and of grief.
So of course I had to go there. On an early morning in late October, before most of the city’s workers had even begun their office commutes, I took a drive through this notorious neighborhood. It was everything I thought it would be. Especially with the windows down. Which I would soon learn would be very dangerous. A second time.
And then, just to make sure I got the full experience of the Tenderloin, later in the day, I tried to walk through it. As I discovered, it was probably the riskiest walk I had ever taken for a KZbin video.
The Tenderloin district is a smallish neighborhood that takes up about 225 square acres of downtown San Francisco. It’s about 50 square blocks, and it’s wedged about halfway between Chinatown and the Mission District. According to the internet, this neighborhood is home to art spaces, concert venues and a mix of upscale and trendy casual restaurants. But even if those do things exist here, they’re simply overwhelmed by the sights, sounds and smells of the worst human condition I had ever seen.
This part of town has the highest rate of homelessness and crime in the city of San Francisco. The district got its name because like a Tenderloin, it is the soft underbelly of the city. Back in the big earthquake of 1906, this place was destroyed, and in its place they put up a bunch of seedy hotels and gambling halls. In the 1920s, it first became known as a place for graft and drug use, prostitution and an alternative lifestyle. Later in the 1970s, this part of town became home to a large number of refugees from southeast asia.
As you can tell, this part of town has resisted gentrification and today, it almost looks like it’s been handed over to the saddest lot you can imagine. The squalid conditions, the drug use, the shootings and stabbings, the graffiti and liquor stores and the strip clubs all serve as a backdrop for a population of residents that have all but been separated from the rest of society. Just a few years prior, 300 lamp posts in the Tenderloin had to be replaced because they had been corroded by urine.
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[@NickJohnson]

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[@joshcarrie5766]

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[@kimf.5420]

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.

[@kimf.5420]

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.

[@kimf.5420]

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.

[@6AlphaMikeCharlie9]

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.

[@jeancapretti2348]

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...

[@NickJohnson]

Jean you are doing great!! ❤️❤️ good for you!!

[@REMBRANTTUBE]

PRAISE GOD!! HAPPY TO SEE THIS JEAN! CONGRATS!

[@briangriffin8106]

Keep going up. Stay clean. Good luck!

[@тамараивановна-ц5ж]

Ты молодец! Пусть удача будет на твоей стороне! Пусть Бог не оставит тебя!

[@jeancapretti2348]

@@тамараивановна-ц5ж what?

[@Jlac34]

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

[@isabellamendes9157]

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

[@denniscartter6029]

Give a helping hand if you Have TIME

[@vickies197]

Yeah and you are part of the problem to!

[@whathe2100]

They’ll throw you in jail for unpaid parking tickets but the government let’s people put up tents and give them hypodermic needles.

[@whendoigettosayfuck]

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.

[@gaybear5328]

YEP! they have a rich exit tax now

[@grumpylimey4539]

You'll get more of the behaviour you reward, so I fail to see how this improves in the short term. Quite the reverse.

[@mikeg3439]

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.

[@peewhocantbeaimed6954]

@@whendoigettosayfuck The homeless don't pee or poo any more than any other human being, but are denied sanitation and hygenical facilities.

[@incurableromantic4006]

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.

[@the.seagull.35]

I don't believe that's a good thing. People have hearts of stone in this world. We need to pray for God to give us new hearts, hearts of flesh every day.

[@btsdulcet6899]

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.

[@matthewpritchard1720]

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.

[@assassin8636]

​@matthewpritchard1720 it's not that deep man

[@jsmacks11]

​@@assassin8636 I think every homeless person has a different story.

[@lafayettedad]

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.

[@Don2006]

I'm still wondering why you lived in TL to attend Cal. Was this common among students?

[@lafayettedad]

@@Don2006 easy BART access and my residency was at UCSF medical center

[@Don2006]

@@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

[@noname-by3qz]

S B... Thanks to your thoughtful observations. And getting free stuff.. where does this narrator get his information? Exactly who gives what?

[@muazqamar]

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.

[@33Donner77]

It's a Party, man - - - for the INSANE. But the Governor still enjoys his $350.00 lunches at the French Laundry Restaurant.

[@heathersather5334]

That's insane

[@kenanacampora]

with his five star Michelin Trained Chefs

[@trextrextrex]

@@IIII...... Gavin is making Cali worse

[@denverdubois5835]

More like $500-600, lol.

[@chillywilliedfw9093]

@@IIII...... But with counseling or psychological help the homeless in Texas can bounce back much easier not having to pay 3500 for rent etc. The homeless in California probably feel like they'll never get out of their rut.

[@johnanthonyp]

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]

Welcome to Amurdica it's Hell on Earth.

[@johnanthonyp]

@@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.

[@johnfrench6564]

@@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

[@johnfrench6564]

@Michelle Spain has a higher homeless rate than Cali even I doubt it

[@scottdonaldson1973]

My first visit there from the UK, I might as well had a flashing arrow pointing down at me 🤣

[@AJX-2]

The trans rights flag hanging over a homeless encampment is the most Californian thing I've ever seen.

[@senorita889]

As a trans woman Is embarrassing

[@MK_ULTRA420]

@@senorita889 good

[@zenpaganwarrior]

All paid for by the CA taxpayer.

[@girlsville]

the neighborhood was historically one of the few where trans people were accepted.

[@edicon2392]

LooooooL

[@tonus2metal]

being homeless is NOT a party

[@lauracunningham8093]

These people's chose to be homeless DRUGS is there priority

[@yappingcutie]

@@lauracunningham8093addiction is a public health issue, u look dumb

[@VinOnline]

This is a horror film holy shit.

[@Jeremyho439]

We spent about 5 minutes there. Remind me of an old movie Escape from New York.

[@margomazzeo1680]

@@Jeremyho439 😳😳😳

[@HANUMAN7454]

You would not BELIEVE the crap I would see out my window In The alley behind my apartment there bruh.

[@Makarov_312]

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.

[@humboldthammer]

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!"

[@joecasella3063]

The lefty mayor of SF should name this the Tent-erloin instead so that it makes more sense.

[@brianfuller757]

London Breed is making a case to be the one of the worse mayors in SF history

[@danbrownellfuzzy3010]

Trump towns. They will clear now he's gone.

[@royt3462]

@@brianfuller757 they say she useless lol

[@AnitaDiaz_JazzSinger]

Don’t blame the current mayor. The tenderloin has ALWAYS been an eyesore and a major problem.

[@ALuDoy]

For real!🍦💩

[@covercalls88]

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.

[@stoveboltlvr3798]

With a dirty coat, a limp and a shopping cart you could film the whole thing at ground level I bet.

[@DavidLLambertmobile]

I recall characters on the CBS series 🚔 Nash Bridges, 1996 saying how bad the Tenderloin area of SF was... 😯

[@wp8423]

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.

[@FuckyWucky]

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.

[@esila4392]

Thank pelosi

[@the.seagull.35]

No one is innocent here 😔

[@FAFO101]

Some states vote Democrats they get what they vote for .... California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, New Jersey and etc...

[@largol33t1]

@@esila4392 And yet, they'll keep that cackling witch in office for life...

[@SF49er415]

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

[@rsohlich1]

They can smell fear right away.

[@patriciawitherspoon2344]

James Barry are you related to Randy Barry

[@SF49er415]

@@patriciawitherspoon2344 I might be , haven’t seen part of my family in a long time due to them moving out of the city

[@patriciawitherspoon2344]

@@SF49er415 ok how are you doing James barry

[@NicoleCara-vm6bo]

Well then don't walk through there then

[@ImMyBloveds]

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.

[@ImMyBloveds]

@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?

[@geraldtyus8645]

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.

[@twongreen9968]

@@ImMyBloveds where u stay so I can visit u

[@Lisa59]

This is so sad. By the way, Nick, were they throwing bottles at your car because they knew you were filming them?

[@eltrader100SBG]

He couldn't figure that out

[@tonoshiki2527]

even worse than north korea

[@pepperchaun2184]

That was my first thought.

[@the.seagull.35]

Yeah because he's driving around, blatantly staring at them and filming them like zoo animals.

[@esila4392]

@@the.seagull.35 they’re not majestic like zoo animals

[@frederiquemartin223]

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...

[@juliastewart741]

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]

you can thank the tech companies that succeded in raising rents and eliminating rent control. an average techy makes 14k per month.

[@juliastewart741]

@@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.

[@frederiquemartin223]

@@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...

[@sebastian3004]

It is not Poverty. It is their life style.

[@NoEscapeGaming]

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.

[@TeeDOG6]

Very sad.

[@at2130]

The tech boom has mad is worse

[@chasingsunsets87]

@@at2130 yup. The stip clubs bouncers and the bar bouncers actually help regulate the place. The tech came here with money and clueless.

[@mariomariu4394]

@@at2130 why can you please explain ?

[@HANUMAN7454]

@@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.

[@slacker4206]

The Tenderloin looks like a real life scene out of the dystopian computer video game Grand Theft Auto 😱

[@Teddy31976]

Could you imagine spending 1.5 million dollars on a place and have to live in that filth?

[@crazytrucker2376]

That would be cheap. 1.5 is nothing for this shithole

[@KYLE1654-v7m]

Could you imagine if we were more kind and helped poor people out? Instead of shaming them.

[@RayRealEstateAid]

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.

[@gailivey2015]

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.

[@welshadventurer2904]

Just an observation but everyone seems to have a nice car in these awful areas.

[@at2130]

Those aren't their cars.

[@kathycavitt3089]

Why would they park there, who cars are they.

[@kevinsouza7744]

Houses cost 1M in those awful areas, if they can afford forking up a million for an average house, than they probablyyyyy can afford nice cars as well.

[@kevinsouza7744]

@@at2130 "The average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment in Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA is currently $2,045."

[@kevinsouza7744]

@@at2130 Yeah but it's not like anybody can just walk up in there and rent for that low.

[@straightto8]

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.

[@erics.1275]

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.

[@jacobsockness571]

SF is really America's gangrenous butt hole.

[@azariacba]

SO TRUE. It looks beautiful from the Berkeley hills or Marin County

[@mosescuh3644]

wrong

[@colico14]

"you're"

[@Michelle00200]

Well damn, San Fran is off my bucket list. That’s saying a lot considering I live right outside of Detroit.

[@carlosalba9690]

Stay out of Downtown it’s actually really nice.

[@SFBenjaminK]

F America turning to trash with this Democracy, no where safe anymore ...save ur money travel to Europe

[@secundebate5292]

Detroit isn't on my bucket list and I live in the Bay Area.

[@howiescott5865]

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.

[@secundebate5292]

@@howiescott5865 I only like California and Hawaii plates.

[@alheno5423]

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.

[@dave3657]

Remember the movie Escape from New York? Maybe they just need to fence the area in to keep the people outside the fence safe.

[@lisaperry5999]

Good idea

[@midnight.amethyst]

Also, you went in the daytime. Everyone know the freaks come out at night😊

[@cheifreal]

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.

[@davidschortner7439]

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.

[@samuelestigoy4219]

I'm RETIRED US Navy and I thanked you for Sharing this Video as my recollection to my old Hometown ❤😢 God Bless Everyone 🙌 🙏 ❤️

[@claudemontezin911]

Thank you for your service and bless you too Sir!

[@sharkparty1027]

Nothing heartbreaking about unaccountable drug users on the streets, they want to be there. Grow up and accept reality.

[@spinmoney101]

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

[@mosescuh3644]

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

[@kenmishima3956]

@@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.

[@mosescuh3644]

@@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

[@kenmishima3956]

@@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.

[@tuileriesantiques9057]

@@mosescuh3644 yup

[@PhuongMalkin]

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 !

[@asullivan4047]

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-!!.🤗

[@psfca]

The TL has been skid row crazy for decades, this is nothing new.

[@beverlyparker9457]

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.

[@tomladdus9264]

The carmera makes things look better than they really are

[@marvwatkins7029]

Yes, it's "staggering" how many people stagger about the Zombie Apocalypse that is the Tenderloin 24/7/365.

[@FindTheFun]

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.

[@izzyjones7108]

That sounds like a song...

[@camt4133]

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.

[@Unmaleable]

The Asians brought the fent there

[@jongallardo8006]

The day someone steps in to clean up this mess is the day frogs will do fractions …

[@phil_matic]

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

[@alejandravelazquez1684]

I work on 6th and market……. You were right behind my alley……. Is so disgustingly dirty 😫

[@Imhim247]

Are you ok? How's California looking now?

[@gregorycyr9272]

I live in Raleigh NC and we have problems like everywhere else but this is disgusting.

[@semectual]

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!

[@NickJohnson]

It's scary out there

[@captseamus]

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.

[@semectual]

@@captseamus Oh Wow! Even in those times too! Thanks for the history!

[@turtlerider6248]

@@captseamus Something for everybody!

[@denisdennis1501]

@@captseamus damn Tenderloin district was still dirty long time ago.

[@crushingalldeceivers]

I accidently got off the bus in that area as a tourist. I just pretended I was tweaking until another bus showed up.

[@NickJohnson]

Tweaker

[@Mistyknight68]

I work down here. there is a whole Law School in the middle of the TL and they charge 3x the rent to stay in a hotel size room across from drugs and addicts and the school is on the corner of McAllister and hyde. its so sad

[@louisnealon6811]

Bravo, Nick! This is a BRILLIANT production. You are a very talented story-teller.

[@Bobthesnob]

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.

[@NickJohnson]

I know

[@CidYoung-REALTOR]

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!

[@DeaDiabola]

That's the saddest part. Thanks Regan :)

[@Kalightortaio]

Bombay is from a developed nation, India. The British stole billions of resources during their tyrannical rule.

[@theherbpuffer]

Look up videos of Kensington Ave in Philadelphia. Doesn't get any worse than that

[@steveyjay4839]

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.

[@raygreen5926]

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 ☘🇮🇪☘

[@paddyt4043]

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...

[@sickcommode-odragon4193]

Try harder.

[@boat6float]

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.

[@raygreen5926]

@@boat6float that's true....maybe it's a lot worse since 1994 🔥

[@beatrixbrennan1545]

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.

[@msuda6188]

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.

[@Ronin_fxd]

We're happy you're gone too

[@Wozzzzz]

sf is heaven minus the tenderloin area

[@MichaelangeloGotBandz]

Yeah that’s just you

[@user-lg5sf3iu1z]

@Angel Jose Mendoza amigo pepe Mendoza como esta

[@dmitriyr4095]

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.

[@normanbrown8772]

When I was in the Navy in the late ‘80’s to early 90’s , I was stationed in Alameda which isn’t far from San Francisco. The Tenderloin was a area to avoid but wasn’t that bad. Hunters Point was truly dangerous. You were right about walking into the Tenderloin and not realizing it. I did that several times but I just turned and went another direction.

[@zaincuriel]

The mission district from 1975 to 2006 right after Blinky from the 22nd hogs Northside was killed who was born and raised right there along with me his best friend.

[@normanbrown8772]

@@zaincuriel what ?

[@zaincuriel]

@@normanbrown8772 😛

[@ARDG89]

"Im GoNnA gO BaCk DoWn ThErE AgAin" 😂😂😂😂 you cracked me up yo. "lets investigate!" 💀

[@JezaLoki]

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]

San Francisco is not the U.S. nor does it represent the majority of our country.

[@JezaLoki]

@@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.

[@bricology]

@@xenonronin7789 -- and the Tenderloin does not represent San Francisco.

[@kellypond9377]

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?

[@xenonronin7789]

@@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.

[@SugarbabySunny]

Minneapolis is turning into this. Broadway, Lowry on Northside and chicago, Franklin, lake over south. People are so high they will attack you for fun. I saw a guy get beat up and robbed for ONE CIGARETTE at the Chicago and lake bus stop. They guy was pinned down and beaten on the yellow line in the middle of chicago Ave s. 55404.

[@captseamus]

I moved out of Illinois in 2011... What a shithole city

[@jammuncada1433]

I was eating in Burger King and a homeless man before I can start to eat grabbed my burger and said I’m very hungry I was shocked and just gave him my soda too and just bought another one for me. I visited an art event nearby I didn’t know that I was in the Tenderloin area.😱

[@MattBurosh]

Oof! Definitely upsetting, but you probably made the right choice.

[@felipe741]

It’s because of people like you that they love on the streets . If nobody gave them free stuff they would sort themselves out. Or die, hopefully 🙏

[@GLRYB2GD]

Lol that's funny bro

[@JesusMovement2.0]

The infamous Burger King .. they finally closed it Down

[@WilyTuber]

This is freaking paradise compared to Skid Row in Los Angeles. Now THAT place is hell

[@perseonoimporta4291]

a few years ago i visited san francisco and one of the things that surprised me was the many people who had been sleeping on the streets and how insecure it was and that i am from uruguay in south america

[@markdc1145]

It’s tragic that what was once a unique and charming big city has now become the armpit of the US. Hell, I’d rather go to Cleveland than set foot anywhere in Francisco today. I warn all my friends from overseas to avoid this snake pit by a wide margin when visiting the US.

[@NickJohnson]

Oakland is way worse

[@bjmarchives]

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.

[@asafaust8869]

You handled yourself well by acting with confidence, not showing fear and getting out of there.

[@fixpacifica]

VERY BAD IDEA to walk around there with a $1500 camera unless it was well hidden.

[@crystalhayes2627]

Just came across your channel I live in the town Orange Texas and it's very small and I'm very blessed. You make sure and be careful out there 😜

[@rsohlich1]

I used to love visiting SF. Went to visit a lot from 2009-2013. The city was rough in some areas but it still had a unique and pleasant vibe overall. I decided to visit one last time in 2017. The city was obviously in a bad way by then. So much tension filling the air. Not sure where/what went wrong. Such a vibrant area in so many ways. The views and architecture is stunning. It's sad and crazy to see how fast most of that changed.

[@Shipslitz]

not sure what went wrong? the rest of the United States is waiting for liberals to recognize and acknowledge the leaders they vote for have destroyed their city. broken policies created by liberal officials cause the city's devastating economic conditions. wake up liberals

[@SURENITY]

That is poor governing for you.

[@rarecandy3445]

i was there around 2016, and it shocked me. during the day i visited haight to check it out and it seemed cool, went to the sunset district at dusk to see the sunset, then went to this area being filmed at night cause i like adventuring around downtowns at night. there wasnt a huge amount of homeless people walking around, just some. the smell of urine reeked the entire night. everywhere we went, all the way down to fishermans wharf. in 2016 it was a hundred times worse in SF than in chicago where i came from.

[@patricianoel7782]

Why is SF one of , it not the most expensive place to live in USA?

[@irishsaber18]

It went full blown Communist, that's "what went wrong".

[@TargaWheels]

Is this where the pooper-scooper guys make 6-figures a year?

[@anderander5662]

Yes

[@Miss_Cali]

Yep. They pay good money to have the sidewalks pressure washed, they would be there around 3:30-3:45 am when we were opening up the train stations 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@Miss_Cali]

@Adolf Hitler Poverty level ends at $118,000 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@anderander5662]

@@Miss_Cali Nobody throwing a fit about all that untreated human waste going into the sewer system??

[@nikolasburley649]

Doesn’t look as good as it sounds.

[@josetorrejon3485]

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.

[@barbararazza4583]

I agree. Voluntarily kiving like this? And still voting D. Smh. Wth is wrong with people

[@gurujr]

SF Tenderloin is where people go right before they become zombies then they stay forever.

[@John-kx3ng]

They saved a tent for Pelosi and Newsome.

[@JesusChrist2000BC]

Nah she moved to Florida to soak up the freedom she destroyed in California.

[@John-kx3ng]

Yeah, exactly.

[@Sdakouls3]

Do you say the same about tents being saved for Republican politicians in the epicentre of the opioid epidemic in West Virginia?

[@joangordoneieio]

I did Community Health Outreach in the TL for 2 decades. Left in 2011. No one should live this way; this is not compassion.

[@Heywhatshouldmynamebelol]

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

[@borisvorik747]

ONLY 1500?? And why wait for a crosswalk especially in a place like this? just cross..

[@Heywhatshouldmynamebelol]

@@borisvorik747 Sometimes you can, sometimes it's risky. Also my old apartment went for 2800 after I moved out.

[@Marvelous_artifacts]

How was stating that you were young and white relevant to what you were talking about ?

[@devonrexcatz]

My daughter and I travelled to the US from Australia in 2015 for a 5 week holiday. We booked our own accommodation online. I suppose we should have researched more thoroughly because we ended up in, or on the edge of this area. What an eye-opener!

[@dinosaur5726]

lol

[@dmitriyr4095]

Welcome to the US. Night and day difference what it was when my family immigrated here 20 yrs ago.

[@Raymondgogolf]

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[@goombabear]

Your first mistake was to visit a liberal city. Where I live, there's virtually no crime. But we all have guns, so that's a great deterrent.

[@tabbyreed8925]

@@goombabear There is also nothing to do in red states. They are good for camping I guess.

[@lutdevroede9156]

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.

[@alvarotorres9057]

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.

[@SF49er415]

I lived in hunters point forever so the tenderloin is not scary lol try hunters point sir lol

[@rydermeehan8171]

HP is most dangerous, Tenderloin is the most horrifying

[@dirkwyse1609]

truth

[@MattBurosh]

@Larry David I've always hated when people say things like that, like, "Nah man, I'm from ____________, where (insert some seemingly complimentary phrase about how terrible and rough it is)...." and it's like, "Uhhhhh.....yay??" (Not saying that @James Barry is saying it like that, just in general) :)

[@SF49er415]

@@rydermeehan8171 100% . More sane people in hunters point tho but more dangerous as in you might get robbed and killed with a gun in hp but in the tenderloin you might only just get a random crazy person to deal with. Depends on the person’s perspective tho.

[@SF49er415]

@Larry David this comment was a surface one. I’m a very accomplished person that has my own place with my partner and son. And work and make great money doing it and I have goals in life so I feel pretty accomplished already. Your thinking way to deep lol it was just a comment about what’s worse lol

[@wendybettencourt6494]

I'm amazed at the amount of businesses that exist in that area. Even play grounds and churches. I wonder who those customers, families and children are. Sad to think about.

[@alexafillinger1549]

It’s everybody else who can’t pay $4million for a house in the other parts of SF.

[@kellyecker4653]

The Tenderloin really isn't that bad. I've lived in the TL since 2013 and areas like the Bayview and Sunnydale are much worse. The key to navigating the TL is to mind your business and not to present yourself as a tourist. I work at 472 Ellis if you want a guided tour next time.

[@Latinaslol]

Agreed

[@zerdaliaselythmyr7424]

yea, this guy is straight pointing cameras in people's faces from his car and acts shocked that people weren't very receptive about it. Not justifying people throwing stuff at him, but I'm curious how people in a safe middle class suburb would react if I just started slowly driving down the streets with my windows down and blatantly pointing cameras at people and recording them while saying nothing. I'm sure they'll be really cool about it. 😎

[@estevanquesada2342]

I totally agree with you Kelly. I had a mail route in the tenderloin and i honestly never felt unsafe. In fact I got more Christmas tips from working class families then in any other district. One plus about the loin is the food!

[@sebastian3004]

We see the world with different eye level. Imagine you came from places like Japan. If you came from Detroit, of course it ain't that bad lol

[@chrismontufar2252]

Hunterspoint

[@batman.darthmaul]

I have a friend that lives in the Tenderloin. You even drove past the building he's in a couple of times. I visited him when I came up to the area to visit and look for a place to live. By the time I left his place, it was pretty late at night. He came with me, walking back to my car. Yeah, it's definitely a place you wouldn't go unless you had to. No one hassled us or even really paid any attention to us, but we're both pretty big guys, so maybe that was part of it. Anyway, he's lived there...for about 4 1/2 years?.....without any real incidents, at least none that he's told me about.

[@natedog2304]

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

[@CinCee-]

Thats cause you str8 puzzy

[@highplainsdrifter3742]

Paradise lost. I lived at Geary and Leavenworth in ‘75. I was in the 5 th grade and could walk the streets safely. Sure there were some bums around and panhandlers. But no tents and trash on the streets. So sad to see it now. You can never go home.

[@derrickhart1976]

The fact that I was doing drugs on those streets in my twenties blows me away now. So grateful for a better way of life.

[@patrickforrest4899]

Interesting how this area is a major hot bed for liberalism yet the disparity between rich and poor is overwhelming. I always thought that was their worst nightmare. What's up with that?

[@denverdubois5835]

Old school liberals live in a dream world of denial and media brainwashing. They are willfully blind to what their world has become and most of them do NOT understand that commies are not only terrible people, but also not really liberal at all. They are authoritarian and they basically favor centralized government control with a sort of feudalistic economic structure--oppressed, brainwashed, impoverished masses and the elite billionaire class, nothing in between.

[@patrickforrest4899]

@@denverdubois5835 so true and the genius on their part has been their death grip on media and education to continue this madness.

[@Cleisthenes2]

definitely the craziest inner-city area in a developed country that I've been to (and I've been to Vancouver)

[@edbriseno1623]

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.

[@nsng1298]

My first trip to San Francisco was in 1980 after I had graduated and decided to fly to NYC from London and travelled overland to San Francisco before flying back to Singapore. I still recalled it was a pleasant and beautiful city. My next trip was 5 years later when I flew into San Francisco and spent a few days there before flying to Phoenix to start my MBA program. Over the years, I have been to San Francisco many times as I preferred to fly into SFO instead of LAX. However, over the years the city has deteriorated, especially the areas around Union Square. Vagrants, homeless and beggars seemed to gather in these areas. The places smelled of urine and shxt. Once I accidentally walked into the Tenderloin District and I was shocked to see needles and syringes on the streets. There were drug addicts everywhere. It is likely both my wife and I will give San Francisco a miss should we travel to the U.S. again. It is a pity the once beautiful city has deteriorated so much.

[@jolaz69]

Since you made this video, the mayor of SF, London Breed, declared a State of Emergency in the Tenderloin. As a result, nothing has changed.

[@ramonfelipe6961]

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!!!

[@andybarnett5279]

"It's a party, man" is the worst quote from this hot take. I was a tourist in San Fran a few years ago and I, too, accidentally found myself in the middle of the Tenderloin district at night. It was not a party. It was hell. Telling your audience that the people who live on those streets are there because it's a free "party" is nonsense. There is insufficient help for them, there, for basic human needs. You are very concerned about them using alchohol or drugs when they haven't earned the money to buy them, but the millionaires all around the city are famous for alchohol and drug abuse, themselves. They don't need your judgement...they need someone to give a damn and help.

[@BurnieFederko]

haahaha

[@DeaDiabola]

Best experience I had in the Tenderloin was finding someone's meth stash in the street and chucking that shit in a dumpster (and that's as good as an experience as you're likely to have in the tendies). And they're right - it was NEVER good out there, but man. This is way worse than when I was out there. This is how it was in Oakland back in the day.

[@Miakitty4233]

These areas are expanding in numbers in every city. This condition was very isolated not even a decade ago, today every freeway and city has homeless encampments that house suffering and drugs to ease the pain of those conditions. Living like an animal makes you become an animal to survive. Once this transition becomes your reality what is there to care about.

[@kidzbop38isstraightfire92]

You can thank Democrats for this

[@asullivan4047]

Along with the diabolically incompetent democratic😈voters.

[@cftvdata]

Just finished watching, and I have a few thoughts; this is going to be a bit long, but I hope you'll give it a chance and take the time to read it. I really feel like you can do better than the tone you've chosen here. The overwhelming majority of people who live in this area (and others like it) never wanted to find themselves in these circumstances; no child thinks to themselves "I wanna grow up and live in a tent on the street and be dopesick for heroin all day and sell my body." Plenty of people are born into circumstances that afford them very little opportunities to craft a good life for themselves. They experience trauma, they are victimized and abused, they might suffer from mental illness. When life deals you such an unfair hand, and you have such an overwhelming amount of hardship to cope with, escaping through drugs might be one of the only options available to you to make it through each day. It's not like America provides much to its citizens in the way of (mental) health care or meaningful resources for the underprivileged. So many of the people you drove past have been beaten down by the world so unfairly for so long that the idea of a better life feels like a pipe dream, and understandably so. You might want to consider the fact when you judge these people that you have no idea what they have endured, what brought them over a period of years or decades to where they were at when you drove past them. I'm not justifying the behaviour of those who commit violent crimes for fun and profit. Regardless of one's circumstances, that is inexcusable. But many of these people are not violent - if anything, they have likely been victims of it. They aren't getting high or drunk out of indulgence; they are doing it to numb themselves from the hell that surrounds them, and it might be the only thing keeping them from suicide. I'm not being hyperbolic here; I was homeless and addicted to drugs for several years. I lived it. And while I am very grateful that I was able to get clean and get off the streets, I also had a ton of help in doing so - from my extremely understanding and supportive family, from my country's social safety net that got me into free, high-quality long-term residential treatment within a few days of me seeking it, from the years of regular outpatient treatment and therapy that was provided to me afterwards, free of charge. For the people in your video, they might have one of those things at their disposal, if they are lucky. And just to be clear, even if someone has access to the best free treatment in the world, drug addiction isn't something people can just break free from at any given moment. It is a very complicated, very unpredictable, inherently irrational phenomenon - a condition of the mind that, while biologically similar to other medical diseases, is entirely unique in other ways that can make it very difficult to understand for those who have not experienced it personally. There is a ton of serendipity involved in successful transitions into long-term recovery. And while harm-reduction measures currently in place across America (such as needle exchanges, safe injection sites and pipe distribution) have proven benefits when it comes to keeping people alive and preventing diseases, they are not a viable solution to the problem of addiction and homelessness on their own. Neither are drug laws that incarcerate people and give them criminal records for possession, mandatory AA/NA meetings, or hardline abstinence approaches. As a growing number of studies in other countries continue to demonstrate, subsidized Opioid Agonist Treatment (and related) programs for long-term /entrenched addicts are a fully viable way to get people off of street drugs, reduce their participation in crime to fund their habits, keep them housed, increase participation in (and benefits derived from) therapy and counselling, get them steadily employed, and help them reconnect with their families. They have also been shown to eventually lead to complete abstinence at a higher rate than more conventional treatment programs. When we can remove the incredibly profound burden of having to support one's addiction, people (unsurprisingly) are able to devote far more time and energy to the task of putting their lives back together. These programs are also beneficial to society at large, as they are inexpensive to run, reduce property crime, reduce homelessness, and save tons of money for local legal, medical and law enforcement systems. Unfortunately, there is an enormous amount of stigma and legal red tape that has prevented programs like these from being trialed in the US, despite the success they have seen in Canada and Europe. I appreciate the comments you made at the end of the video. And I'm not trying to sit here and cast judgement on you, either. Just hoping to put some alternative viewpoints and perspective out there, so that you might be able to think about these things in a different (and hopefully more comprehensive light). I genuinely do understand why you might have looked around the Tenderloin and thought "Wow, this is a zoo"; these areas can seem that way on the surface to those who have never been on the other side of the camera lens. But I hope that you'll consider the fact that these are still people - people with lives, people with hopes and regrets, people who smile and laugh and cry and suffer, people who are trying to get through each day to the best of their abilities just as you are. Thank you for taking the time to read this!

[@bkenwood88]

I worked directly, and I mean very directly, with the drug addicts and mentally ill transients in Ventura CA. 99% of these people choose this life, I've had that said to my face from 18 yr old kids all the way up to 75 yr old alcoholic tweakers. Give them homes, they will do drugs in them. Give them treatment, they will do drugs during it. I've seen veterans refuse to claim life changing amounts of VA aid money because they would have to stop living free, fresh out of high school kids with their school clothes still on their backs saying how they WANT to be addicts because no one tells them what to do. The schizophrenics I truly feel for, they have it the worst, but the majority of this shit is a chosen lifestyle and I'm sorry, everyone is personally responsible for the actions they take.

[@ICEJosh1987]

nonce

[@dumnass3394]

​@@bkenwood88 99% ?? Knock it off

[@dumnass3394]

Thank you for being real. I was also very put off by his extremely judgemental tones. I was hoping to find a comment similar to yours but you far exceeded my expectations! Thanks again for knowing and caring.😊

[@humanlikegiant]

totally right. He's making s 'documentary' about this area and referring to the people as 'bums'. Completely out of touch with his subject.

[@RommelJGuzman]

If this is the worst you’ve ever seen you have a very limited life experience.

[@greggonzales8969]

Me and my wife lived in the Tenderloin in '87-'88. It was an older apartment building on O'Farrell between Polk and Larkin. You drive past it at the 17:00 minute mark. Even back then the alley smelled of urine and you had to watch where you were walking so you wouldn't step in human feces. There were plenty of homeless men around, but not many females or families back then. I'm glad I had the opportunity to live there, but I couldn't do it today. So sad how much the city has deteriorated.

[@davekidd9134]

we would have an retreat yearly at the Catholic High School in San Mateo Ca. to the Tenderloin to feed the homeless at St Anthony's dinning room:even deliver food an clothing to people living in small apartments, it was an eye opener for all. there were no problems and we would sit and have ameal with the residents.there was security there to make sure we were safe. we'd walk down the streets and people would read our name tags and listen to their stories. some were successful people who ran into hard times, I personally think that no one want to live a life like that,but life is hard and with todays world any one could find themselves in the streets. life is a really unfair

[@roselee4445]

Drugs and horrible drugs have changed personalities

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[@northland..]

Seriously, why does America allow this to continue and get so out of control? I would really like to know....

[@karenhargis9824]

The Tenderloin brings me to think of Anthony Bourdain. I can imagine that he would be disgusted by how much SF has changed

[@davidschortner7439]

My last job before retiring as a driver was delivering late at night to CVS stores in that area. At one store near Market and California streets there was guy without a shirt who walked around screaming as loud as he could. He was incoherant but really annoying, it was the last straw for me. I told my boss I was done with Frisco. He understood.

[@barryoconnor721]

I was there last 28 years ago, touring the country on freight trains with my rucksack. It was a fun couple of days, drinking and haunting the Asian groceries for obscure snacks... nice and clean, kept up well. It now seems like city leadership is determined to make another Port Au Prince of it.

[@fixpacifica]

SF city government is dysfunctional, corrupt and Gawd-awful.

[@studentaccount4354]

It almost seems like blockbusting a real estate ploy to lower RE values and then funnel money in the area for rehabilitation. There has to be a better way.

[@JasonP6339]

It's called modern liberals.... Better known as communists.

[@JasonP6339]

@@fixpacifica communists usually are

[@denverdubois5835]

@@fixpacifica Amen. I despise them.

[@steveprice33]

I don't know what it says about me personally, but I've seen some areas in my travels that make these places (as tragic as they are for the people there) look like day camps. I know that there could be something "lost in translation" from camera to actually being there, but from what I saw, there are places far worse off. I've seen some places that made me fear for my life despite being in a car with four other people. Makes you realize how silent and widespread of a problem this is in our national discussion.

[@ntl9974]

Like which places

[@FlyingMonet]

@@ntl9974 Sao Paulo and Rio make this place look like a joke.

[@homelylad]

Well of course ,this is bad by American standards only ,it's not meant to be compared to countries like Brazil or Moldova.

[@karlkidd1]

I remember skating around SF, 20 years ago.. the streets smelled like piss, but it was also just a magical atmosphere to be out there.. Now, it seems like a forgotten wasteland to me

[@microfarmers]

I lived at 308 Turk st. In 94 & 95 it was much worse then! I witnessed more violence in 2 years than most people will see in their lifetime. I'm glad they cleaned it up.

[@tommyboss4067]

So sad. 😭😭😭