Posted on 04/13/2023 8:06:33 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
LOL! Yes, SF was a nice city, and in those days, even if you were 71, you’d have been fine.
It always had a higher proportion of loonies than other places, but they were under control. A lot of them were from way out of town but had wound up there because it was considered “tolerant” from its rowdy Gold Rush days.
I had a friend who said that it was because SF was as far as they could go in their wanderings over the country before plunging into the ocean.
However, it was in the late 70s that they started accommodating the loonies and druggies (as a by-product of the hippie influx), by the 80s the black parts of SF and many of the waterfront areas were too dangerous to walk in, and then I left. It got better briefly and now it has hit bottom.
I’ve been back occasionally, and I can’t believe how bad it is now. It’s all the result of Dem politics.
But I don’t stay long and increasingly I just stay at an airport hotel, make whatever family visits I need to make, and then get out of town. Very sad.
BAM!
I sent her my contact info if she needs comforting during this traumatic time in her family
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