Very well said, thank you. I am a native San Franciscan, having been born here and now living in South San Francisco. I and others have endured the insults of others who claim we're all gay for living here. Not so. Lots of family people here, with good morals. Most of the people on my block fly the U.S. flag every day. The economy is roaring, lots of jobs, new building going on, and everywhere you look there are baby strollers and children playing. Every other large city I've been to has large pockets of poverty. Not so here. The "ghetto" in SF (Hunters Point/Bayview district) looks like a well-to-do middle-class enclave from other towns, versus the burned-out desolate stretches I've seen in other cities.
Someday we may reclaim California as a conservative state. The liberal trouble-makers came here from elsewhere and lots of them are going back to where they came from.
” The “ghetto” in SF (Hunters Point/Bayview district) looks like a well-to-do middle-class enclave from other towns, versus the burned-out desolate stretches I’ve seen in other cities.”
Years ago, I worked down on Jerrold Avenue. The area around the Produce Market, including Potrero Hill was a $hit hole. We had dead bodies turn up on our streets and it wasn’t a place where you wanted to take a walk after lunch. We had a chance to drive through that area a few weeks ago incuding driving up Third St. to the AT&T Ballpark. The Renaissance is stunning! Gone is all the crappy city-owned housing on Potrero Hill, replaced by high-end apartments and condos. Third St. is revitalized ( don’t know where all the Blacks who used to live there went, but they are largely gone from the area). Our daughter works for one of the major contractors in SF. They have never been busier building both business and housing. Downtown SF has an ever changing skyline due to all the construction. The old Transbay Terminal has been torn down and is being rebuild to accommodate better transportation infrastructure as well as more office space above. All of this activity has had the effect of displacing all the trash people that used to lurk in the city. Don’t know where the’ve all gone, but they have gone!
These people on FR who form the anti-California “amen chorus” don’t have a clue. They lash out in their stupidity at our state without having any first-hand knowledge about what’s really going on here. Would I like to see the RATs go packing? Sure, but nothing in governance is static, and the pendulum will swing back as people finally figure out that they are being played. Personally, I am not going to let those who use less than truthful invective to trash our state without a response.