[buwaya]

You are right about the Mayor. The oddity is in this town he is held to be a conservative.

And, really, I'm having serious cognitive dissonance going here. The place isn't that bad. Even at its worst its no different across the bay, like by Lake Merritt. There are no tent cities at the Caltrain station. Downtown is where nearly all the bums are, but geez, us residents don't live there, do we ?

[vikingcelt]

The place isn't that bad. Even at its worst its no different across the bay, like by Lake Merritt". Well I would say that it's a lot worse than "like by Lake Merritt". The last time I was in SF was when I was still living in Oakland. We had gone over to SF by bus to go to a concert and spend the night in a hotel. When we went back to Oakland the next day we were exclaiming about how Oakland seemed like "Paradise" and it did. There are not hordes and hordes of homeless on the streets of Oakland and downtown Oakland is a lot more pleasant place than downtown SF.

[HamiltonJay]

You need to ride the caltrain if you don't think there are tent cities there... that's all you see when you come into the city... soon as you start getting close to the final stop, tents everywhere.