Posted on 07/01/2021 4:24:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
To say that San Francisco is in decline would be an understatement. The city that once captured the hearts and minds of everyone who saw it is a shadow of what it once was thanks to skyrocketing crime, rampant drug addiction, and Democrat policies that continue to worsen every problem it has. Now, San Francisco residents are so tired of drowning in the issues that nearly half of them are planning to pack up and leave.
According to CBS San Francisco, the city’s Chamber of Commerce conducted a poll with more than five hundred registered voters and found that over 40 percent of the residents said they planned to move out of the city in the next few years.
Residents blame the horrifying state of the city only made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns according to CBS:
Lindsay Stevens just finished moving out over the weekend.
“There’s nothing worse than seeing such a beautiful place in such disarray, and I really thought I was going to be sad when the movers loaded up the last container on Saturday, and I have never been more relieved,” said Stevens.
After more than 12 years in San Francisco, Stevens recently sold her place and moved to the Palm Springs area.
“I honestly think in the last three years, we’ve seen a massive decline in the quality of life and that was only enhanced over COVID,” she said. “The homelessness has been a severe problem, people are not feeling safe walking their dog… the number of break-ins seem to be constantly on the rise.”
Her feelings are reflected in the results of the chamber’s poll.
CBS notes that 80 percent of San Francisco residents believe that crime has worsened over the years with 70 percent saying the quality of life had declined. Almost everyone believes homelessness has worsened with only 12 percent saying it hasn’t, and making you wonder about their cognitive capacity.
They are correct in their feelings. As I reported on Tuesday, San Francisco has seen a 753 percent spike in car break-ins and a 75 percent increase in thefts. The unbelievable spike in crime has San Francisco residents, some of the most leftist people in the United States, wishing for the police force back that they defunded and will continue to defund over the course of two years.
(READ: The Most Left-Leaning of the Leftist Cities Wants Its Police Force Back)
So, what are the Democrats going to do about it? As reported by the Daily Wire, Mayor London Breed is going to take care of the problem “in a holistic manner.”
“In order to support the City, its residents, and our economic recovery, serious investments need to be made. Mayor [London] Breed has laid out budgets which target these issues in a holistic manner, and they lay the groundwork for serious solutions,” said San Francisco Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Rodney Fong.
In other words, Breed is going to use $1 billion to expand conservatorship over San Franciscans with severe mental illness, including court-ordered treatments for them.
No plan to restore jobs or putting a halt to the defunding of the city’s police department which has proven to have a direct correlation to increasing crime rates. Nope. San Francisco Democrats are going to spend money to become babysitters to San Francisco’s homeless.
If you’re in the city, get out.
You are absolutely correct about St Louis. The once respectable high school I attended is now Great School rated at 1 out of 10.
My sister recently passed away and with her the last reason I ever had to go back. It is really tragic. I had a good and safe childhood growing up there in the ‘50s.
The residents that SF loses will contaminate other places in America with their trashy philosophy.
If God was going to give the earth an enema, He’d stick the tube in San Francisco.
Foul the nest, then leave it.
Beirut, Lebanon was really quite lovely in the 1970’s. Really. Look at it now. Things can happen rather quickly.
1950: Beirut is the Paris of the Middle East
2021: Paris is the Beirut of Europe
I’m in Arizona and I’d gladly contribute to help build The Wall. Only I want The Wall on the WEST side of Arizona.
I’m in Arizona and I’d gladly contribute to help build The Wall. Only I want The Wall on the WEST side of Arizona.
Democrats turning American cities into shitholes by taking in millions of illegal immigrants from shithole countries and making the taxpayers pay the price!
Democrats are doing this purposely to get illegals to have millions of children to vote for them when they come of age!
They keep wanting to lower voting age too.
The working taxpayers are being FORCED to pay billions to keep democrats in the driver’s seat.
THIS IS CRIMINAL.
Ha! Let it be so.
How did that double post happen? Will it happen this time?
I remember traveling to saint Louis from Scott AFB in Belville. Visited a huge non-catholic cathedral-like building. Looked very catholic on the inside. Remember crossing a bridge with a floating gambling casino parked underneath.
Short-term pain, with the intent of overturning red states.
The crisis will be in property values upon which the entire house of cards is built.
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California will keep taking third worlders, with the intent of pushing them out onto greater America.
Is it anti-Constitutional to kick out a state?
I’m thankful for Texas and Florida. While I see as many CA plates in my town as i see from the nearest neighboring state I’m glad the bulk of people fleeing CA are going elsewhere. Even if they voted like me I wouldn’t want the traffic, sprawl, and increased population.
“ San Franciscans better not move to red states and foul up the gene pool.. Idiots will just keep voting Dem in spite of their experience.”
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Agree that the idiots never learn. But sadly, GOP has lost Colorado, Nevada, probably Arizona. I fear Texas is next. And, if we lose Texas I don’t see how we can win a national election for the foreseeable future.
Nope, no exaggeration at all. And that map is from 2 years ago of which they’ve done nothing, so it’s even worse now.
Look at this from 2018, 20 POUNDS of human sh— dumped on the street. How the hell can anyone stand living there?
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Francisco-human-waste-feces-homeless-Reddit-13044317.php
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