<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1466401409173.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3467" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1466401409173-300x225.jpg" alt="wp-1466401409173.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a>On Saturday aftheresfternoon a stroll along Valencia Street, across 22nd Street and back down Mission. This area is a real mix of people with young, hipster techies rubbing shoulders with vagrants sleeping on the pavement (sidewalk). Because of the well paid technologists prices are booming and there is considerable gentrification which leads to more homelessness.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1466401335367.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-3466 alignright" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1466401335367-200x150.jpg" alt="wp-1466401335367.jpg" width="200" height="150" /></a>At no point did I feel threatened and considering I was on my own, an alien in a foreign country, I was pleasantly surprised. There was an incident towards the lower end of Mission in a project where they were trying to rehome vagrants but there was plenty of police presence and life went on around it.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1466226381766.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3464" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/wp-1466226381766-200x134.jpg" alt="wp-1466226381766.jpg" width="200" height="134" /></a>Interestingly there isn't a separate ambulance service and all emergencies are handled by San Francisco Fire Department, SFFD, so it isnt unusual for a fire engine and an ambulance to turn up for the same incident. Maybe we should try this in the UK to save money.