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European countries absolutely have their share of smelly homeless people.



Can you name a European city that has anything approaching the homeless problem of SF, Seattle or NYC?


Honestly, I've been to SF and NYC (Manhattan only) and have barely seen any homeless people. It didn't look better or worse than a typical European city. Probably I just didn't go to the bad districts?


SF is 100x worse than any European city I've ever seen. I guess you haven't seen Mission and downtown.


I've been to SF several times, always staying near downtown and the homeless population didn't feel any larger than Berlin's.


I didn't feel like a saw many more obviously homeless people in the parts of Manhattan or Brooklyn I was than I do in say Oslo or London, but I realize that that is only a small part of NYC.


Probably London.


I've never, ever heard anyone not wanting to go on public transport here because of homeless people shooting heroine in there. Unlike Californians among which this seems pretty popular


Naples




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