Posted on 09/16/2007 7:55:56 PM PDT by george76
In a city that has a reputation for being home to more dogs than children, the number of families planning to move out of San Francisco has decreased in recent years -- and on Thursday Mayor Gavin Newsom said he hopes to be able to reverse the trend of family flight.
The population of children living in the city has dropped by more than 33 percent since 1960, and today there are just 112,000 young people under the age of 18 living in San Francisco, Newsom said.
But the mayor painted an optimistic picture of what the future will look like for the city's youth during his second annual state of the city's children address, saying "the state of children, youth and families is better, and the best is yet to come."
Newsom spotlighted a city report released earlier this week that said 36 percent of parents with children ages 5 or younger are either very or somewhat likely to leave San Francisco, compared with 45 percent in 2005. The report by the city services auditor cautioned, however, that larger households and families are still more likely to leave than other residents.
The mayor spent most of his speech discussing family-friendly initiatives he has championed since taking office in 2004...
Newsom, who said he directly experienced family flight as a child when his mother decided to move from San Francisco to Marin County so that he could attend high school there, promised to do more to keep families in the city.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
High crime ?
Bad schools ?
supportive of diversity ?
What else ?
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What do you call an underaged child in San Francisco?
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Fresh meat.
Huh?
....And more gerbils than dogs!
And they wonder why families are leaving.
These “progressives” destroy every thing that they touch.
all you straight people leave now
that what they're seeing in those results is statistical rock-bottom. Rock-bottom is not ZERO families wanting to leave, it's what they've got now. The remainder are the people who have it so bad here that they can't see a difference between living in SF or Oakland or Vallejo or any other place with high poverty (so why relocate?).
This city is as vile a place to raise children as it has ever been. I also suggest that the improvement in % of families desiring to leave SF comes from a quantity of those families from the earlier survey actually doing so.
Yeah. That oughta bring the families back in droves. Stupid Progressives.
Let’s see, the song....auhh, “I Left My Part in San Francisco... and moved someplace else... Let them eat each other up...I’d say.
Exposure to rampant degeneracy?
The strong feeling that their young boys are being targeted for recruitment?
The two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.”
Free health care for illegals ?
We live in the SF burbs. We go into the city about once a year and then only if we have to. Why not more often? The bums (aka homeless people). You don’t feel safe in a city were human detritus is living in the street and hitting you up almost everywhere you go.
I can’t fault a family for not putting up with those condtions.
San Francisco hopes to reverse black flight
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-26-urban-blacks_N.htm
Hey, Mr. Mayor. I got an idea. Why don’t you have two Gay Pride Parades every year. That oughta bring the families flooding back in to SF.
Come on, admit it. If you were in a family of illegals wouldn’t you flock to a place that had free health care?
I imagine to the leftist, gay leaning San Fran politicos “family friendly” means having having gay men raise the children taken from the straights.....
Oh, I’m sure they will come up with an inventive Liberal solution like always.
Hey I know! How about dispensing free turkey basters on every street corner? Not very romantic, but its the thought that counts!
San Francisco may be an okay place to visit. But I cannot imagine having to live there.
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