I’m from Detroit. I was in downtown SF a few years back. It was zombie town. It was shocking. Within being there 1hr I’d witnessed people shooting up and was propositioned by a hooker in the pub.
So to say downtown Detroit is 1000% better is a real testament to how bad SF is....given, Detroit has come a long way but I was shocked.
And it was all intentionally done. It’s a feature, not a bug to them. The US must fall.
Neither is Austin, the San Francisco of Texas ….the woke’s cancer is too far gone to cauterize the poison.
What an idiot
“In 1907, downtown was mostly rubble and ash.”
What a non sequitur. In 1907, urban civic life was quite civilized and families could live there. Beat cops kept the bums out. Taxes were low. Great civic works were being built all over the place: roads, bridges, railroads, communication lines, water and sewer systems. There was optimism everywhere that things were good and getting lots better. There was a can-do spirit from having conquered and settled the West in the previous 40 years (the frontier had “closed” just 17 years before). Law and order prevailed and justice was swift and sure. There was limitless opportunity.
Contrast that to today where urban civic life IS “rubble and ash.”
Sure. Ruin everything, then say 'whatever'.
Enjoy the misery, Dem voters in San Fran.
So she is OK continuing the policies that are leading to the absolute destruction of the San Francisco tax base and somehow it’s all gonna work out. Where will the money come from in the future
I left in 2008 - and I’m not coming back, either. :)