Its not the “gay friendly” part that is the problem.
We would very much like to think so, because of the blatant and easily publicized incidents, but it just isn’t much of an issue to the real inhabitants of SF - very few people see this sort of thing and it doesn’t intrude into normal peoples lives. People generally have to go out of their way to witness this sort of depravity.
Its far, far more common to see the plain misery of the homeless and the down-and-out. And they aren’t, for the most part, dangerous at all, just sad.
The biggest problems for families are high rents in good neighborhoods and the difficulty and uncertainty of getting the kids into good public schools.
Which were, likewise, caused by local government actions. The choice to become *NOT* "family friendly" was made in the past, and now the results are plain to see. Again, I have to ask, what is hizzoner going to do? Force people at gunpoint to stay in this quagmire created by his predecessors, and which he has no intention of actually stopping, let alone reversing?
San Francisco made its bed a long time ago, and now has to live with the results, decine, and eventual extinction as a human habitation...
the infowarrior