I lived around and at times in SF for 10 years. Left in 2014. Went back to visit recently it is fucking incredible how drastically things have devolved. It used to be tenderloin and hunters point were the bad spots. But, compared to Tampa and Atlanta hoods, they felt tame. Now... That shit (also literal shit) has spilled out all over the city. It just feels like Detroit 2.0 is coming. (or here already)
The tech bros over-bubbled the markets, forced out the working class. Except for the rent controlled squatters, so you had this massive contrast. Tech bros are at work all day, and loners/no community at home. So the streets are left to the hordes. Throw in fentanyl and legal theft, covid authoritarianism smashing 5 out of 6 small businesses, most of which needed the rich tech bros to function... Once critical mass of them started working remote and moving out to the far suburbs like Fairfield, i think that was the deathblow.
Huge dem bureaucracies have no agility or ability to adjust, to fix things. They always address the wrong, surface level shit that you can virtue signal off of. Policies crushing all small business? Meh. Small business leave? Food desert! Why would huwhite supremes do this! We'll throw a billion at minority owned businesses, via a charity my cousin set up, of course she has a 95% administration overhead, but she is doing so good for her community.. which happens to be in Martha's Vineyard, but.. you're a bigot.
I used to go yearly for various tech conferences (so maybe I was unknowingly part of the problem) and it was depressing as hell to see how every year it was worse than the year prior. Haven't been in 5 years or so and I don't think I'd ever have interest in going again. Absolutely great city that has gone to shit.
I lived around and at times in SF for 10 years. Left in 2014. Went back to visit recently it is fucking incredible how drastically things have devolved. It used to be tenderloin and hunters point were the bad spots. But, compared to Tampa and Atlanta hoods, they felt tame. Now... That shit (also literal shit) has spilled out all over the city. It just feels like Detroit 2.0 is coming. (or here already)
The tech bros over-bubbled the markets, forced out the working class. Except for the rent controlled squatters, so you had this massive contrast. Tech bros are at work all day, and loners/no community at home. So the streets are left to the hordes. Throw in fentanyl and legal theft, covid authoritarianism smashing 5 out of 6 small businesses, most of which needed the rich tech bros to function... Once critical mass of them started working remote and moving out to the far suburbs like Fairfield, i think that was the deathblow.
Huge dem bureaucracies have no agility or ability to adjust, to fix things. They always address the wrong, surface level shit that you can virtue signal off of. Policies crushing all small business? Meh. Small business leave? Food desert! Why would huwhite supremes do this! We'll throw a billion at minority owned businesses, via a charity my cousin set up, of course she has a 95% administration overhead, but she is doing so good for her community.. which happens to be in Martha's Vineyard, but.. you're a bigot.
I used to go yearly for various tech conferences (so maybe I was unknowingly part of the problem) and it was depressing as hell to see how every year it was worse than the year prior. Haven't been in 5 years or so and I don't think I'd ever have interest in going again. Absolutely great city that has gone to shit.