The Bay area is more than just SF itself.

The Bay Area was crowded already but for the last 10 years (until maybe the pandemic) all new companies have been flocking to SF. It doesn't make it any better.

That doesn't mean that all parts of the bay area have the same crime rate as SF itself, as the gp implies.

Also, I'm not even sure that SF has a higher violent crime rate than other cities to begin with: https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francis...