lucky to be alive??? (San Francisco, Daly City: house, neighborhood, community college) - San Francisco - Oakland - California (CA) - City-Data Forum

griz134 · 09-01-2009, 04:10 PM

I was visiting your lovely city this summer with my wife who was born and raised in San Francisco. We were visiting her aunt in Pacific City, and was returning to San Francisco in the evening and took a wrong exit. We ended up circling around Daly City, driving up and down Geneva Ave. Went by the Cow Palace a few times. Some of the streets we saw were Moscow, Vienna, Paris etc. It all looked pretty scetchy, and my wife was terrified. I asked her to stop at a 7-11 so I could ask dierctions, but there was a tough looking gang of guys hanging out in front so we passed. After about an hour of driving in circles with out of state plates, I was wondering if we are lucky to be alive. Does anybody know much about this area? Are we lucky to not have been carjacked, and murdered?

jbunniii · 09-01-2009, 04:42 PM

Yes, almost every single person who drives to the Cow Palace gets carjacked or worse. This is why so few people in San Francisco own cars, and why so many are dead.

iTsLiKeAnEgG · 09-01-2009, 04:56 PM

Typically they kill you, skin you and then have sex with your lifeless bodies. You should definitely be wiping the sweat from your forehead! Whew!

Snort · 09-01-2009, 05:19 PM

The least that would have happened is that you would have been submitted to a whole lot of buggery. Some people like it though.

stillfresh · 09-01-2009, 07:37 PM

the smart thing to do was to drive passed this area.
lets examine your choices
a. drive passed bad area
b. drive around in circles and stay in bad area

5 minutes north of the cow palace and ur in the sf community college area. then it turns into ocean avenue.
now that i think about it im mad u didnt get jacked.

BayAreaHillbilly · 09-01-2009, 07:48 PM

Your wife was born and raised in the City but did not know how to navigate?

I smell a troll.

rah · 09-01-2009, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by griz134

I was visiting your lovely city this summer with my wife who was born and raised in San Francisco. We were visiting her aunt in Pacific City, and was returning to San Francisco in the evening and took a wrong exit. We ended up circling around Daly City, driving up and down Geneva Ave. Went by the Cow Palace a few times. Some of the streets we saw were Moscow, Vienna, Paris etc. It all looked pretty scetchy, and my wife was terrified. I asked her to stop at a 7-11 so I could ask dierctions, but there was a tough looking gang of guys hanging out in front so we passed. After about an hour of driving in circles with out of state plates, I was wondering if we are lucky to be alive. Does anybody know much about this area? Are we lucky to not have been carjacked, and murdered?

Congratulations! You took a tour of Visitacion Valley, home of the infamous Sunnydale Housing Projects, and former home of the even more infamous Geneva Towers housing projects.

That hood consistently has the second highest murder rate in the city, after Hunters Point. You're lucky you weren't robbed, murdered twice, sold into slavery, OR had your organs harvested man.

No you're not going to get carjacked or murdered for driving through...but something not very nice might happen if you make it a habit of driving through the projects, looking lost and with out of state license plates. If you think the area is bad now you should have seen it 15 years ago.

I guess I could give you some horror stories though, so you can tell all your friends about how you could have got KILLED!!11!: In 2007 a 66 year old man was shot dead and carjacked in front of his home in Visitacion Valley. In 2004 in Hunters Point, which borders Visitacion Valley, a tourist couple got off on the wrong exit and had their car sprayed with bullets, killing the wife.

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Originally Posted by BayAreaHillbilly

Your wife was born and raised in the City but did not know how to navigate?

I smell a troll.

Never underestimate lack of a sense of direction or lack of knowledge of a city...even by natives. I have a friend who was born and raised in SF, and he has basically no experience in the city south of...I dunno 24th street.

griz134 · 09-02-2009, 07:21 AM

My wife got lost because we were staying at a friends house in a different neighborhood she grew up in. Driving back from Pacific City at night, and not being sure what exit she needed to take caused her to get lost. She never had a car growing up, and always rode the bus, seldom ever leaving her neighborhood. She especially had never been to this area we got turned around in. It was really confusing. I usually have a pretty good sense of direction, but couldn't figure out what direction we were driving. Her panicking didn't help matters. I told her to call her friend, but she was ashamed at being lost, and didn't want to admit to it.

griz134 · 09-02-2009, 09:52 AM

I was just looking at a map of San Francisco to try and remember some of the streets we were on. San Bruno Ave. was also a street that we went up and down a few times. That street looked pretty bad, and I think that is where the 7-11 was we almost stopped at.

sonarrat · 09-02-2009, 11:02 AM

When you went eastbound on Geneva, you eventually hit Bayshore Blvd. You took a left there, which was correct.. but you didn't go far enough. Keep going and you'll see a ramp to 101 north in a few blocks. That 7-11 you got spooked by was on Bayshore just before that point.

Be glad you didn't keep going on Bayshore until it turned into 3rd Street. Your wife would have had a heart attack.