but how much meth/fentanyl and violent psychosis was involved? in my experience, these days, in a city with a LOT of homeless people, the threat of violence is real enough to keep your head on a swivel. a friend of mine grew up in a neighborhood in a different city with a lot of violent/drug crime. she feels less safe walking through parts of her quiet neighborhood here. there's enough very deranged, unpredictable charles manson types lurking. vs...the drug users skulking away. they are just out here, shooting up, hitting that meth bubble.

people can overblow it here, go on and on about how the city is going to shit, but it's not good.

just curious how many death threat type homeless people you encountered. there's "homeless man ranting and raving"...and there's homeless man unhinged on meth/whatever screaming "im gonna kill you motherfuckers"