Sensational reporters looking for clicks from stupid people.
They equate LA and SF with California. Some of these reporters have never been to CA. Many who give them clicks have not either.
Is Virginia DC? Texas Houston?
And Maryland = Baltimore.
Idiots all.
San Francisco and LA are major tourists centers - one of the reasons they used to be pristine. You don’t take your tourist centers and turn them into sh*tholes without destroying the entire state’s reputation.
Perhaps, but Victor Davis Hanson is a long-time CA resident who writes about its sad decline.
https://www.hoover.org/research/diversity-illegal-immigration
I work in NYC so spend a lot of time there. Outsiders would think that Manhattan is nothing but a large smelly landfill.
In fact, 95% of Manhattan is a beautiful place. I spend hours and hours walking through the neighborhoods, especially when the weather is nice. Much better than taking a cab around as most locations are walking distance from each other. Manhattan is a great walking town.
There are some blighted areas for sure. As you will see in any major city. But most of the city is very pleasant to walk through and is very safe. Not to mention world-class restaurants, shopping, museums, etc. Yet people who see nothing but a YouTube video of homeless folks at Penn Station figure the whole town is like that . Wrong.
Idiots all.