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A Collapsing San Francisco Is About to Lose Nearly Half Its Residents and Democrats Are Only Fueling the Fire
Red State ^ | 07/01/2021 | Brandon Morse

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: exodus; sanfrancisco
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To: SeekAndFind

But But But But .......Socialism.


41 posted on 07/01/2021 5:32:41 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: SeekAndFind

...just don’t come to Texas!


42 posted on 07/01/2021 5:40:32 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: SeekAndFind

S hole people create s holes. Stay in san fransicko!


43 posted on 07/01/2021 5:40:42 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: SeekAndFind
and yet, don't pick up fluffy's poop and it'll cost ya...
44 posted on 07/01/2021 5:41:13 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Veto!

That is exactly what is happening,. AZ saw it in 2020. Texas will fall in 2024 or 2026. They keep inviting the liberal to come to their state.
Florida will fall with the east coast liberals fleeing NY and NY.


45 posted on 07/01/2021 5:46:20 PM PDT by ncfool (Joe Biden USSA.. United Socialist state of aMeriKa...... 11.3.2020 - President in waiting Kama-la-la)
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To: chronicles

I grew up in STLCO. Always shocked about how bad the City has become but Sam Page the STLCO supervisor is wanting to reunite the city and county. He wants the county to be equally as bad as the city.


46 posted on 07/01/2021 5:48:19 PM PDT by ncfool (Joe Biden USSA.. United Socialist state of aMeriKa...... 11.3.2020 - President in waiting Kama-la-la)
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To: Veto!

The stupid is so predominant with D voters that they are incapable of seeing reality. Stupid may be strong with that one, too.


47 posted on 07/01/2021 5:49:13 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: BipolarBob

San Fransh!thole


48 posted on 07/01/2021 5:59:07 PM PDT by Prole ( )
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To: hanamizu

Yea, it was a creepy drive over to the Truman Presidential Library when in St. Louis a few years ago.

Nothing but abandoned buildings and sketchy surroundings as I made the visit. I couldn’t believe how hollowed out that area was.


49 posted on 07/01/2021 6:01:41 PM PDT by Prole ( )
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To: Cen-Tejas
"...just don’t come to Texas!"

Families Fleeing California Bay Area Causing Housing Frenzy in Austin, Texas

50 posted on 07/01/2021 6:09:25 PM PDT by blam
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To: 353FMG

We were stationed at Scott too. Loved going to St. Louis. Lot’s of things to see and do. It’s a shame that all of our great cities are being ruined.


51 posted on 07/01/2021 6:15:23 PM PDT by Himyar (Comes A Stillness/ God Bless Robert E. Lee)
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To: SeekAndFind

They won’t actually loose them, they’ll move to less liberal areas, and vote for every new law, regulation, bond and tax...


52 posted on 07/01/2021 6:18:43 PM PDT by null and void (We're the only country where so many people believe pro wrestling is real and elections are honest!)
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To: 353FMG
Remember crossing a bridge with a floating gambling casino parked underneath.

That sounds like the Admiral riverboat. I remember seeing it many times years ago, a sleek silver boat, kind of Art Deco style, that was always docked along the St. Louis riverfront.

I grew up in Illinois, and lived a couple of hours north of St. Louis for a number of years, before moving to Colorado in the late ‘70s. I have great memories of visiting St. Louis. My dad and I used to go to Cardinals games, at the real Busch Stadium, during the era when players like Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, and Joe Torre were in their heyday. That was such a special time to be a Cardinals fan. It was funny, my dad and my aunts were all Cubs fans, while all of the kids (my cousins and me) were Cardinals fans. That led to lots of razzing back and forth.

I also remember the St. Louis zoo, the McDonnell planetarium, and all the rest of Forest Park. I remember great restaurants like the Clayton Inn, a riverboat dinner theater we went to once where Huntz Hall, of Bowery Boys fame, was performing, and a really unique Noah’s Ark themed hotel and restaurant out in the suburbs.

And being a kid during that time, I have especially fond memories of what was then called Six Flags over Mid-America. I’ve never forgotten how sparkling clean it always was, and not being able to afford to go somewhere like Disney World back then, it was like our Disney World and it was magical. I’ve been really heartbroken to see what it has turned into as the current Six Flags St. Louis. Most of the atmosphere and magic stripped away, just to stuff it full of as many high-thrill roller coasters as possible. I love coasters; I remember being among the first to ride the Screamin’ Eagle when it opened in 1976, but once Premier Parks bought the place years ago they just threw away the quality of the experience, and the variety of rides needed to appeal to families, and instead just turned it into a run-down adrenaline factory targeting teens.

And from what I have seen, the rest of the city has gone down the tubes in similar fashion. Anyone who ever lived in that area knows what East St. Louis was always about, and to avoid it at all costs, and there were also always pockets of similar “diversity” in St. Louis proper that were crime-ridden, but from what I understand nowadays the rest of the city has gone rapidly downhill as well.

Very, very sad to see.

53 posted on 07/01/2021 6:21:27 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Mr Rogers

Oklahoma City is going far left as well. I’ve lived in San Francisco and Hollywood but Oklahoma City is more gay than either one of them now.


54 posted on 07/01/2021 6:25:55 PM PDT by atc23
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To: SeekAndFind

Democrats destroy everything they touch.


55 posted on 07/01/2021 6:26:03 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: atc23
Oklahoma City is going far left as well. I’ve lived in San Francisco and Hollywood but Oklahoma City is more gay than either one of them now.

Steers and Queers.

56 posted on 07/01/2021 6:26:47 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hanamizu

Two years ago my GF and her son drove through St. Louis and were shocked at the disrepair and abandoned buildings.


57 posted on 07/01/2021 6:30:22 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: SeekAndFind

Clearing the way for BlackRock and China buying everything and rent it out. Or let the rich Chinese have first choice.


58 posted on 07/01/2021 6:32:39 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh hell no. Put a giant fence with watchtowers and machine guns around it.

Make them actually live with what they voted for.


59 posted on 07/01/2021 6:37:08 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

Escape from New York...


60 posted on 07/01/2021 6:38:19 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (If I wanted to live in China, I would move there!)
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