Heck, the Niners don’t even play there anymore.
Riddle me this — if as the article says, San Francisco is a city of empty storefronts and missing young people, why are homes and real estate still the most expensive in the USA?
I would expect that if there is a mass exodus, the price of real estate would drop.
I took a job and spent 3 months in Utica, NY in the fall of 1997 (the time of which she speaks). I went to the local shopping mall, Sangertown Square, and it was a ghost town. There were no young people from age 18-40. Everyone was less then 18 and much older than 40. There was nobody in the middle. That’s when I decided to leave town like everyone else had done.
Wait till California demonicRATS repeal Prop 13 which is in their crosshairs this session. Property taxes will skyrocket which will knock out even more businesses.
Maybe dems want everyone to leave california...Then they can clean up the poor,dump them elsewhere and have the golden state all to themselves...Only people left will be the slaves needed to work...Like Apartheid....Rich dems,poor slaves...
Back in the early 90’s, I had to go to SF regularly for work. It was a vibrant city, clean, relatively safe. Took the wife there for a long weekend visit, enjoyed it. However, the tour guide on that trip warned that things were headed downhill. Now, you can’t pay me to go back there.
Comments on the Guardian website claim the vacant space problem is exaggerated.
I haven’t been in SF for about ten years personally.
“San Francisco is getting to be a hellhole “
It’s ALWAYS has been a hellhole.
The Professional Association I belong to was thinking of having our convention in SF. The Hotel sales mamange told us that everything is fine in San Francisco and the news stories were way overblown. The people we talked to are in complete denial as to the crisis in SF.
We voted to have our meeting in Phoenix.
Everything run by liberals eventually becomes a hellhole.
San Francisco is a beautiful area.
Rich people like to live in beautiful areas.
The problem is, the rich don’t like having all those other people around.
So, they sit in their fortified estates and make life miserable for everybody else in the area to make them move out.
Too much riffraff on their beaches and roads.
The real estate in that market is owned by the wealthy elites, the well-financed, or the children heirs, the latter and most of whom cannot afford the property taxes, so they sell to one of the first two. The abandoned retail reflects the inability of the working class to afford local rents or mortgages, so they split town. Soon, the elites will sell as their quality of life there becomes intolerable, due to the emigrating service class. We are watching this frog boil in real time, in many prog dominated cities. Meanwhile, investors like me, in Denver, make top dollar on our rehabs from those refugees.
There’s so much money from tech companies that everyone else cannot afford San Francisco. Just imagine trying to start a restaurant with $15 minimum wage.
After WWII, SF was somewhat sophisticated and eclectic.
By the late 60s, SF was dropping as depicted in the Dirty Harry Movies, showing the dichotomy between the left and conservative crowd or just simple normalcy.
By the late 80s, SF was just recognized for having some wealthy portions, and generally no sophistication whatsoever. Homosexuality was normalized. Military was being run out of the Bay Area.
By the 2000s, indigents and illegal aliens were promoted and declared as a sanctuary city even when they murdered people.
2020s don’t indicate any sign or turnaround other than further degeneracy and collapse.
San Francisco can’t die fast enough.
Perhaps people should take a good look at the reality. While the economy is booming in the country, The Los Angeles regional food bank distributes 300,000 meals a month, but that, says its director, Michael Flood, is only a fraction of what the hungry 1.4m people in the county need.
There are an estimated 553,742 people in the United States experiencing homelessness on a given night, according to the most recent national point-in-time estimate (January 2017). This represents a rate of approximately 17 people experiencing homelessness per every 10,000 people in the general population.
As of January 2018, California had an estimated 129,972 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
If you do the math, that puts almost 24% of all the homeless in the US in the state on any given day. It doesn’t take an Einstein to determine that all those mouths to feed and the problems with drugs, crime, and just plain filth, is exactly what a third world country contains. And the only people to blame for this is their leaders over the last 80 years, and their anti-USA attitude of destruction. Problem was it didn’t happen the way they wanted as the other 49 are not running to their relief. And they wish to have other states turn out like this? Again, it doesn’t take an Einstein and they certainly don’t have one.
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Darn, I was thinking of opening a ‘Scotch Tape Boutique’, but maybe now I’ll reconsider...
And four hundred restaurants closing in 2019.
No young people. Of course not town is mostly fags.