This is a pretty smart guy!
Boy do I feel the same. The first time I visited SF was in 1966 on the way to Hawaii and Vietnam. I stayed at the St. Francis Hotel in a corner room over looking Union Square. It was a wonderous place then. I wandered around the Square and thought it was the most magnificent city I had ever visited.
Now...I probably will never go again. My last visited there for business were a disappointment of paradise and maybe our whole country lost to liberalism.