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Once upon a time, it was lovely city with beautiful architecture and amenities galore. I spent eight years in Kobe, Japan, saw their bridge which was the equivalent of the Golden Gate bridge built and opened. We could walk to the beach in 20 minutes or bicycle there in 10 minutes.

We could ride the bus to the end of the line in the other direction and were one subway stop from Green Stadium where the famous Ichiro Suzuki started his professional baseball career. We got to see him play in person. They handed you little trash bags stuffed with advertising literature on the way in. You stuffed them with trash which they collected on the way out. Kobe was such a civilized town. It even had a Chinatown. We got in on the earthquake of 1995 and saw them rebuild.

One can only imagine that San Fransicko was once like Kobe before the liberal locust took charge.