Nonsense! wrote:
Paradoxical wrote:
You would think they would be spending more time fixing their rampant homelessness and drug addiction in their cesspool of a city, but that's not as important as their blatant virtue signaling.
You idiots believe everything you hear about San Francisco on Faux News. Yes San Francisco has a homeless problem, as does every major city. Drug problem? Absolutely. But the rampant feces and drug needles that you idiots describe is ridiculous. It's made up bullshyte that you morons just keep repeating. San Francisco is still one of the most beautiful cities in the world and one of the most popular tourist destinations. Grow a brain and stop being a sheep that just repeats things they hear.
Yeah, this is just another thread started to complain about what a terrible, liberal place SF is. The poop, the homeless, the woke culture… But SF has long attracted the off-beat, the unconventional and free spirits. The beatniks in the 1950s, The Summer of Love - where middle American pretended to be outraged by the crazy hippies and their radical ideas.
When I first went to SF in the early 1970s the Haight was drug-infested and crime-ridden. Lower Mission, where Salesforce world hdq now stands, was skid row. North Beach was filled with seedy strip clubs and Carol Doda was prominently in view. The Tenderloin was always a place to avoid. SF has reinvented itself many times over and its strength is that anything goes mentality. The openness to new ideas fueled the dot.com boom and made many people rich (and others broke). It spurred the creation of Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Yelp, Twitter, Square, etc. For a town with supposedly such a bad business climate it is more entrepreneurial than almost any other major city.
I worked in FIDI for a decade and never had to step over poop. Yes, there were homeless but I was never bothered by anyone. And let’s be honest, most of the homeless are not from SF, but they are there because they are more tolerated than in the place they came from. I do think that one of the things that contributes to more people on the street is the relentless removal of all of the SROs, where people could live for just a few $ a week. This trend has occurred in downtown LA and Seattle as well.
But I don’t really understand why people that don’t live in SF and seldom visit care so much about what happens there. Yes, SF is different but do you want every place to be exactly like your home town? If cities like SF die where will innovation come from? And I don’t mean just innovation in technology, but in culture and art and new idea as well. It won’t come from middle America because change there is anathema and represents a threat. If you are offended by SF don’t visit. SF will find its own path and re-invent itself again – or maybe it won’t. But the country will never be rid of misfits and people with different and radical ideas, no matter how much we try and suppress them.