Posted on 04/17/2018 8:56:07 AM PDT by C19fan
As president of S.F. Travel, the city’s visitors bureau, Joe D’Alessandro’s job is to promote San Francisco. You’d think he’d be hyping the city’s gorgeous vistas, top-notch restaurants and glorious museums.
Sure, San Francisco has great facets worthy of postcards and travel books, but it also has a worsening underbelly that D’Alessandro says he can no longer gloss over.
People injecting themselves with drugs in broad daylight, their dirty needles and other garbage strewn on the sidewalks. Tent camps. Human feces. The threatening behavior of some people who appear either mentally ill or high. Petty theft.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
Just another Liberal SHITHOLE. Thanks Demorats!
Let me know when it is cleaned up, in about 20 years, before I die or am too old to travel.
Just another Liberal SHITHOLE. Thanks Demorats!
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Yep, they’re good Progressives and their Progressive policies have created their Progressive shithole.
But telling people not to crap on the sidewalk is so judgmental!
Just had a colleague return from a convention in sanfran. She stayed in a nice hotel, the convention was in the “nice” part of the city.
She was absolutely disgusted by the homelessness and general sanitary state of the area.
She said she had dinner in the hotel’s outdoor dining area the first night, and none of the others. The homeless were camped right up against the small fence surrounding the hotel patio. She could literally smell them as she ate dinner.
Mr. Roo Roo and I just spent a week in San Francisco last month, took the grandson there over spring break.
There are a few areas (like the top of Nob Hill) that are still clean and sparkling. Otherwise, the amount of trash, feces, condoms, and other disgusting things on the streets is unbelievable. Trash cans in the high tourist traffic areas are emptied only once a day, so trash piles up everywhere.
And there aren’t just individual homeless people on the streets, there’s actually COLONIES of homeless people living on the sidewalks, in doorways, parks, parking lots, and alleys. I was also shocked by the number of small businesses that have shut down; there’s lots of former vacant stores and restaurants everywhere. It’s a shame.
In a recent visit to Seattle I went out of my way to make it very clear to hotel management that the homeless camping out near the hotel was unacceptable and that I would be spreading the word to everyone I know that they should avoid this hotel at all costs.
They needed to hear it—people tend to accept something as “normal” unless an outsider breaks the spell..
The 70’s were a pretty cool time. I could drive downtown and park anywhere. Saw many a show at 444 Battery. Forgot the name of the place. Could be all the Chinese money that came in after Hong Kong went to the mainland. Would it have stayed the same? I don’t think so. The south of Market became Manhattenized under Willy Brown. Couldn’t stand the big mouthed New Yorkers who came in thinking they knew it all. It was Nirvana back then.
At the Sepulvada dam area (101 & 405) by Los Angeles, there are tents and trash everywhere in the brush along Bull creek. The homeless were removed a few months back but they showed up again and the place is a pigsty again.
Nice and clean I bet where ever politicians live.
What’s the problem?...it’s a rotten liberal utopia in a rotten liberal state....
There’s a pretty easy solution. Just build a wall around San Francisco. Only allow verified residents in.
Why do I always have to think of everything?
Invent time travel vacations and I would consider going to SF then.
We still visit periodically, but stay in and rarely venture out of the Marina District.
Shoot your local heroin dealer.
What’s the problem?...it’s a rotten liberal utopia in a rotten liberal state....
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Yep, they’re good Progressives and their Progressive policies have created their Progressive shithole.
When you’re going to San Francisco, wear a bio-hazard suit, you’ll meet filthy people there.
They can’t. If they do, how can they shake down downtown businesses for more tax revenue?
I tour through San Francisco about once a month, ...to dump my trash, so I would appreciate a clean place to dump.
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