Nobody is sharing anecdotes except literally you, saying "As someone who lived in NYC, moved to SF for 3 years, and then moved to back to SF, i see SF as WAY worse." I'm posting numbers: SF has 145 homeless people per square mile and NYC has 257, based on the numbers posted in this thread, and that's a big fucking difference. No idea where you're getting "current" numbers - I'm getting
8,011 for SF from ABC, and
62,000 for NYC from Coalition for the Homeless. I'm sure that brings it more to a comparable level, but that still makes "I see SF as WAY worse," something YOU POSTED WHILE COMPLAINING ABOUT ANECDOTES, pretty laughable.
Not knowing what you're talking about, not providing citations, and still acting like a smug jerk in the process is a pretty toxic brew. I recommend knocking it off.