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San Francisco’s ‘poor street conditions’ a factor in city’s loss of $64M Oracle tech conference
Fox News ^ | December 10 2019 | Dom Calicchio

Posted on 12/10/2019 11:21:13 PM PST by knighthawk

Oracle, a major Silicon Valley tech company, will move its annual OpenWorld conference to Las Vegas next year – over concerns about San Francisco’s hotel rates and the city’s “poor street conditions,” according to reports.

The loss of OpenWorld, which has been held in San Francisco for about 20 years, is raising new concerns about whether the city’s struggles with homelessness, open drug use and street violence may be scaring off tourism and other business, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

“For the industry, for the city, to have a major conference leave us impacts all of us,” Kevin Carroll, chief executive of the Hotel Council of San Francisco, which represents hotel owners, told the newspaper.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: oracle; sanfrancisco

1 posted on 12/10/2019 11:21:13 PM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Keeping city roads in good shape is just so conservative.


2 posted on 12/10/2019 11:42:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: knighthawk

I’ll forecast that within ten years...SF is more like Baltimore. Property values will decay and tourism revenue shrinks to almost nothing.


3 posted on 12/10/2019 11:51:47 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: knighthawk

4 posted on 12/10/2019 11:52:35 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: Secret Agent Man
Keeping city roads in good shape is just so conservative.

Uh, it’s not the, er, potholes and cracks that are the problems, Secret Agent Man. It’s the crackheads using the streets for potties.

The city by the bay can only afford so many sanitation workers in full body hazmat suits being paid almost $250,000 a year including benefits to collect human feces and wash down urine with high pressure steam hoses. . . twice a day.

5 posted on 12/10/2019 11:57:05 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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To: knighthawk

Sadly the insane ideas of the voting public will leave settle somewhere else and do the same.


7 posted on 12/11/2019 1:44:40 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“ Keeping city roads in good shape is just so conservative.”
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Guess they could assign each homeless person a pothole .....


8 posted on 12/11/2019 2:49:13 AM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: knighthawk

Yep, I was out there a couple of weeks ago for a big conference. Stayed in an old hotel on Market St. It is beyond depressing to have to walk by insane, hopeless people camped out on the street in the midst of all that booming wealth. It is so sad that these poor souls are used essentially as props or street art to further the leftist agenda.


9 posted on 12/11/2019 3:57:36 AM PST by glorgau
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To: knighthawk

We used to go to S.F. and spend a few days before we went up to the wine country. Not any more. Even eight years ago there was Sh!t in the streets, can’t imagine what it is like now.


10 posted on 12/11/2019 3:57:51 AM PST by wetgundog
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To: Secret Agent Man

Why spend money on streets when SF has the welfare of their beloved perverts to contend with


11 posted on 12/11/2019 3:58:59 AM PST by okie 54
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To: Secret Agent Man

SanFran *poor street conditions* = too much human poop to step over.


13 posted on 12/11/2019 5:22:03 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: knighthawk

They decided to hold the conference in Mumbai instead. It’s cleaner.


14 posted on 12/11/2019 5:23:16 AM PST by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: wetgundog
We used to go to S.F. and spend a few days before we went up to the wine country. Not any more.

I still go to SF, but rarely venture out of the Marina District.

15 posted on 12/11/2019 5:26:16 AM PST by Salvey
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To: snoringbear
Guess they could assign each homeless person a pothole .....

So he/she can fill it in?

16 posted on 12/11/2019 8:03:26 AM PST by zeugma (I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
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To: glorgau

>>Yep, I was out there a couple of weeks ago for a big conference. Stayed in an old hotel on Market St. It is beyond depressing to have to walk by insane, hopeless people camped out on the street in the midst of all that booming wealth. It is so sad that these poor souls are used essentially as props or street art to further the leftist agenda.

Being a progressive means you never complain about the need to step over human filth on the way to your 6 figure tech job....


17 posted on 12/11/2019 3:09:37 PM PST by qwerty1234
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To: knighthawk

With Apologies to:
Martha And The Vandellas
“Crapping In The Street”

Calling out around the world
Are you ready for a brand new beat
Summer’s here and the time is right
For crapping in the street

They’re crapping in Chicago (crapping in the street)
Down in New Orleans (crapping in the street)
In New York City (crapping in the street)

All we need is music, sweet music
There’ll be music everywhere
There’ll be swinging, swaying, and records playing
Crapping in the street

Oh, it doesn’t matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
So come on, every guy, grab a girl
Everywhere around the world

They’ll be crapping (crapping in the street)
They’re crapping in the street (crapping in the street)

It’s an invitation across the nation
A chance for folks to meet
There’ll be laughing, singing, and music swinging
Crapping in the street

Philadelphia, P-A (crapping in the street)
Baltimore and D.C. now (crapping in the street)
Can’t forget the Motor City (crapping in the street)

All we need is liberalism, sweet liberalism
There’ll be liberals everywhere
There’ll be swinging, swaying, and records playing
Crapping in the street

Oh, it doesn’t matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there
So come on, every guy, grab a girl
Everywhere around the world

They’re crapping
They’re crapping in the street (crapping in the street)
Way down in L.A. (crapping in the street)
Every day, they’re crapping in the street (crapping in the street)
Let’s form a big, strong line (crapping in the street)
Get in time, we’re crapping in the street (crapping in the street)
Across the ocean blue (crapping in the street)
Me and you, we’re crapping in the street


18 posted on 12/13/2019 8:04:01 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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