my neice went to San Francisco last summer, I asked her about it, once, and she said the city was beautiful, but the streets were filled with homeless and mentally ill lunatics. wont go into details, but it was pretty bad
she said she would never go back
I lived in San Francisco for work, from 2000 to 2008. Here is how it would go getting new parks in the city.
Worers tax themselves for a beautiful new park, or courtyard, or strip of green space with either swings and gyms for kids, or fountains and statues for adults.
The day a new ark ould open, the homeless would start setting up tents or sleeping bags. Within weeks, there would be so many homeless scattering needles and litter and defecating everywhere that the hard orking taxpayers who funded the new places were sickened to use them while they were afraid to let teir children use them.
I saw this first hand over and over again. A complete waste of millions in taxes.
What a disaster.
Had my first trip to Seattle in Dec/Jan, lovely skyline. However, in the city homeless and crazies rule.