Posted on 12/11/2021 12:03:48 PM PST by Rummyfan
Caitlin Foster fell in love with San Francisco’s people and beauty and moved to the city a dozen years ago. But after repeatedly clearing away used needles, other drug paraphernalia and human feces outside the bar she manages, and too many encounters with armed people in crisis, her affection for the city has soured.
“It was a goal to live here, but now I’m here and I’m like, ‘Where am I going to move to now?’ I’m over it,’” said Foster, who manages Noir Lounge in the trendy Hayes Valley neighborhood.
A series of headline-grabbing crime stories — mobs of people smashing windows and grabbing luxury purses in the downtown Union Square shopping district and daytime shootings in the touristy Haight-Ashbury — has only exacerbated a general feeling of vulnerability. Residents wake up to news of attacks on Asian American seniors, burglarized restaurants, and boarded-up storefronts in the city’s once-vibrant downtown.
San Franciscans take pride in their liberal political bent and generously approve tax measures for schools and the homeless. They accept that trashy streets, tent encampments and petty crime are the price to pay to live in an urban wonderland.
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Don’t move. You broke it, you bought it.
Stupid is really hard to fix.
The piles of needles and feces need to get really high before they start believing their eyes..and nose!
“Stupid is really hard to fix.”
And the Asspress is as stupid and hideous as they come. Playing violins supporting their idiot policies, with a sprinkle of salt for criticism. And of course, they spew at Trump.
RE” “It was a goal to live here, but now I’m here and I’m like, ‘Where am I going to move to now?’ I’m over it,’” said Foster, who manages Noir Lounge
Back in 1967 Eric Burdon and the Animals sang about nowhere to go in
San Franciscan Nights (excerpt)
Jeans of blue Harley Davidsons too
On a warm San Franciscan night
Old angels, young angels feel alright
On a warm San Franciscan night
I wasn’t born there perhaps I’ll die there
There’s no place left to go, San Francisco
Cop’s face is filled with hate
Heavens above he’s on a street called love
When will they ever learn
Old cop young cop feel uptight
On a warm San Franciscan night
Note: at the time critics found the “warm” reference “inexplicable.” for the normally cold nights. Turned out the 10 days of touring for Burdon was the 10 warmest nights in years and it left an erroneous impression on him.
A stich in time saves nine.
They sowed the wind and are now reaping the whirlwind.
When I lived there in the 70’s, Hayes Valley was pretty much a Gay neighborhood with some relatively nice homes. So of course, totally liberal.
We paid $450/month for a very nice apartment 7 blocks from Nancy Pelosi’s gated home. Looked it up a few years ago, $6.500 per month, full of bunk beds where day workers and night workers could crash. What a cesspool that place has become.
With the meth and the fentanyl it really is a zombie apocalypse. Dies it get better from here? I say it gets way worse.
Just the chickens of Liberalism coming home to roost.
Note to Caitlin: it gets REALLY cold in Indiana in the winter so you don’t want to move here.
It’s hard to be a lefty when everyone can see the results.
Which is why they’re trying to shut down social media with the Cancel Culture.
Maybe he was here in November. We've had a lot of warm nights lately in November, sprinkled with a couple rainy nights. Same now in December. Weather is better than July in SF.
A classic case of cognitive dissonance. To normal people, a dystopian city littered with drug addict needles, feces, urine, trash, violent crimes, and bums in the neighborhood where you live does not equal a "urban wonderland". No.
An absolutely contradictory sentence. Are modern "journalists" truly that stupid?
Dang, I was just about to post that.
Be sure to wear a flower in your hair.
LOL. "Touristy" must be Newspeak for filthy, disgusting, homeless-overrun, crap-hole. I had the misfortune of driving through there back in 2018, and it was awful even then.
“They accept that trashy streets, tent encampments and petty crime are the price to pay to live in an urban wonderland.”
Cognitive dissonance on glorious display.
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