I went to Stanford 50 years ago and used to love going to San Francisco. Thirty years ago I started writing a dystopian AI sort of novel based in the future with San Francisco as the backdrop.
Well that future has arrived.
If anyone knows any moviemakers, let me know. With the new AI generated video, my novel could go to movie without a huge budget. My books and scripts had zero chance in Leftwing media, but I don’t need them anymore.
The city has been dying a slow death for a long time, now it’s speeding up.
The irony/coincidence is amusing.
Here is a CEO with last name Baltimore. (The word/name rhymes with “whore”.)
And one of San Francisco’s most famous residents, who played a role in making SF a 21st century $h!th0le, came from Baltimore.
bkmk
Somebody needs to see Zelenskyyyyyyy and see if they can get some of our money back that Bidenskkyyyyy gave him.
2900 empty rooms - great!
Can fill it will 5800 illegal migrants on Fed.gov dime!
The SF Hilton at Union Square has always been a misfit. Just tear it down. The half the tourists show up in SF, anyway. Sad how the city has become a third world with nice spots and not so nice spots. My grandparents lived in SF and watched both bridges get built in 1935 and yes, the Catholic Churches in SF are amazing.
There were major clues how bad things were when on the internet there was (and still is) a site mapping the areas of the city where the human fecal piles are the worst (the homeless areas). Graphics on the site use vertical columns of poop piles with a legend equating so many little piles to so many homeless and the resultant disgusting crime rate as well as smell. One of them right down in the parking area for the tourist pier restaurant area. Whole place taken over to accommodate worthless human debris— instead of dealing with their drug and mental issues and getting them moved out.
“ How did you go bankrupt?”
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
Third world has arrived . You think those photos of Kisangani (Stanleyville) were unbelievable? Withdrawal of business and a small quake are all that’s needed to make SF into a favela.
I guess I’ll be the contrarian here. I’ve conservative, have worked in SF for 29 years and still do—only in the office once a week though. Edge of the Tenderloin. Yes it’s dystopian now—more than ever—…but the city has natural beauty by the Bay. More beautiful than Detroit. Educated people around. Maybe there is an opportunity for bargains and one day a revitalization…everything has a cycle. I’m an optimist. But the problem with SF voters is that they are just TOLERANT of everything…including dystopia. They are honestly fine with it.
It would seem they would welcome all the illegals to rebuild the city and refill these empty buildings.
Get out of REIT’s NOW. This problem isn’t limited to San Franfreako.
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Interesting list at that link.
“…concerns over street conditions…”
So, after losing that kind of money, still can’t say exactly why. Riiight…