San Francisco Starbucks about 4 years ago...I was in line of about 20 for coffee. Strange short man in front of me, almost midget size. He kept motioning me to get in front of him and finally I did, guarding my purse. He kept collecting food when we got close. He caused a skirmish right when my coffee was ready. He screamed foul words where children were present and scared. He then ran out of the store with probably $20 worth of food. He went across the street and he and his dog had breakfast on starbucks!!!
We avoid the city, which I loved for two decades, completely now. Cannot even ride BART from Fremont to SF without being threatened by yutes, thugs and druggies just daring you to look at them wrong.
I never was a big fan of cities, and I wouldn’t want to even go near them now.
I like my off the beaten path house where we can’t see the neighbors and what we do see are deer, and owls, and hummingbirds, and dragonflies, and the occasional eagle from the nearby river.
Funny, SF, I almost got into a fist fight there, at Fisherman’s Warf, 22 years ago. A bum refused to let me walk by without giving a donation, got in my face screaming at me.
I live in FL now, and have a neighbor from California. He admits, the state is insane. He gave up on it and moved to FL.