I don't want to hear a single sentence about "food deserts".
San Francisco is getting exactly what they wanted. |
Please. So easy to watch another city absorb your home grown problems. People go to California because they can live outside all year. |
That's what Atlanta does.. |
+ 1 - yes, the SF voters are getting what they voted for. They should be perfectly happy now that there are less police + more criminals/homeless. Defunding the police is what they marched for in 2020 so I am happy that democracy is working |
what a dump |
I live 40 minutes away from SF and there are plenty of neighborhoods that are very decent. I think that’s why people vote for who they vote - they hide in those decent neighborhoods and love doing good on paper.
The only thing preventing other progressive places from becoming SF is the weather imo. |
Hysterical people. |
DP. And yet, I bet you're one of DCUM's finest who obsess constantly about Florida, even though you don't live there. Right? |
I'm sad that I haven't had a chance to take my kids to San Francisco or Chicago yet. No way in hell we'll be going anytime soon. |
I've been to SanFran recently - I had a good time. Still love the city.
I would say a couple of things - the change in work habits during covid has obviously drawn people out of the city and the impact is clear. There is also a very large issue with unhoused individual but it's too cute by half for the tech companies who have figured out it's cheaper to have people WFH to pretend that homeless people is the reason they're not all sending workers back to SanFran offices. SanFran local government has to do a much better job in dealing with the very obvious problem that they're facing with unhoused individuals and open air drug use. Vacuous claims that 'we must address the root problem' fools no one. Going back to the city in July for a wedding. Will happy to visit there again. |
NYC has a lot of billionaires. Are they taxing them sufficiently, or do they have the same homeless problem? |
Yep - this is how much of Red State America deals with their own homeless problems - they send the sheriff to round them up and put them on a bus with a one way ticket to San Francisco, NYC, DC or elsewhere. San Francisco and other cities should take those communities to court to make them cough up the funds to take care of their homeless or send their homeless back to them. |
See them before they are gone, I guess. Or not. |
Maybe the answer is states should be able to retain way more of their own tax generation - and also be more responsible for their costs.
i.e. California should keep more of its tax $ and pay for itself - Arkansas should keep more of its $ and pay for itself |
Do you really think that a passed-out drug addict lying on the sidewalk would be all that much better off with a roof over his head? Any apartment you put him in would be a filthy wreck within a month. SF has a drug and crime problem that dwarfs other issues like a housing shortage. |