Poo-poo
Parking tickets
Expensive rent/mortgages
But one more huge thing:
High SF hostility to KIDS. Really, really hard to bring up kids there.
SF has many more dogs than kids.
Are you a very high-earning, car-hating gay person who loves architecture and amazing restaurants..?
Then SF is for you; for ALL others it’s a pass.
Rather than San Francisco proper, the article is describing the greater San Francisco Bay area including areas miles and miles from SF.
If the Castro district within San Francisco would change from being a faggot neighborhood to a Polish neighborhood then the city would be much less detestable.