Decades ago San Francisco was the beautiful city by the sea with gorgeous views and the iconic Golden Gate bridge. It’s still beautiful, but after decades of liberal policies and politicians the city has changed in a big way.
In the 70’s and 80’s I loved San Francisco, now it has lost much of its charm due to the huge homeless population, very high property crime, and ridiculous home prices that make the city all but impossible to afford (current median home price is $1.1 million) except for those in the tech industry. But who knows how long tech boom will last? For most industries there are booms and there are busts. Office rents in the city are now higher than New York city because of so many tech industries moving in. How long can that last?
Friends don’t believe me when I tell them when you see poop on the sidewalk in San Francisco you hope it’s from a dog. It’s often from a human. Human feces have become so prevalent there is now a map of where in the city it is most prevalent. The city is also grappling with urine soaked elevators on their rapid transit system. San Francisco has long been known as a city that tolerates everything and these problems are proof positive.
San Francisco is a ‘sanctuary city’ which means everyone is welcome, regardless of legal status and regardless of crimes committed. The city now has the highest property crime rate in the nation.
Homelessness has reached crisis proportions with an estimated 6,686 homeless people in the city in hundreds of tents all over the city, under bridges and on sidewalks. According to a recent survey, homelessness in San Francisco is the biggest concern of city residents. Businesses hate it but there’s little they can do when the homeless block access to their businesses. The city has tried to address the problem with little success. Nor can the businesses do anything about the beggars on every street corner of the city. Dodging beggars on every corner and feces on many streets makes for a less than pleasurable tourist experience.
In San Francisco there is no prohibition against sleeping on the streets or blocking sidewalks. There is no prosecution for drug crimes. As a result addicts are all over the city as are syringes. Syringe sightings in the city have increased by 41% over 2015. Feces sightings have increased by 39%.
San Francisco brings in $9 million a year from tourists and $4 million in tax revenue and yet the city is billions of dollars in debt. The city also wants to spend $5 million to defend illegal immigrants.
Interesting articles on what is happening in this once wonderful city, Reasons Why San Francisco is the Worst Place Ever, and 34% of Bay Area Residents are Ready to Leave.
More about what has happened to the city by the sea here.
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[…] San Francisco actually has maps so people can track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks. The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places. Discarded syringes are everywhere. San Francisco’s property crime rate is the highest in the nation and “smash and grab” thefts involving broken car windows are so commonplace that repair shops have waiting lists. The DA’s office no longer prosecutes “victimless” crimes like prostitution or drug possession, resulting in a massive influx of drug dealers into the city. […]
[…] San Francisco actually has maps so people can track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks. The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places. Discarded syringes are everywhere. San Francisco’s property crime rate is the highest in the nation and “smash and grab” thefts involving broken car windows are so commonplace that repair shops have waiting lists. The DA’s office no longer prosecutes “victimless” crimes like prostitution or drug possession, resulting in a massive influx of drug dealers into the city. […]
[…] San Francisco actually has maps so people can track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks. The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places. Discarded syringes are […]
[…] San Francisco actually has maps so people can track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks. The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places. Discarded syringes are everywhere. San Francisco’s property crime rate is the highest in the nation and “smash and grab” thefts involving broken car windows are so commonplace that repair shops have waiting lists. The DA’s office no longer prosecutes “victimless” crimes like prostitution or drug possession, resulting in a massive influx of drug dealers into the city. […]
[…] San Francisco actually has maps so people can track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks. The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places. Discarded syringes are everywhere. San Francisco’s property crime rate is the highest in the nation and “smash and grab” thefts involving broken car windows are so commonplace that repair shops have waiting lists. The DA’s office no longer prosecutes “victimless” crimes like prostitution or drug possession, resulting in a massive influx of drug dealers into the city. […]
[…] San Francisco actually has maps so people can track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks. The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places. Discarded s […]
[…] San Francisco actually has maps so people can track where the worst incidences of human waste are on the sidewalks. The homeless population now approaches 7000 and there is no law prohibiting sleeping on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places. Discarded syringes are everywhere. San Francisco’s property crime rate is the highest in the nation and “smash and grab” thefts involving broken car windows are so commonplace that repair shops have waiting lists. The DA’s office no longer prosecutes “victimless” crimes like prostitution or drug possession, resulting in a massive influx of drug dealers into the city. […]
The situation is far worse than just San Francisco. With super majorities in the State House and Senate, as well as a very left wing Democrat governor, California merrily increases taxes on the decreasing middle class work force. I personally know of 6 long term California residents who will be moving out because they realize that there is no hope. Southern California rips off Northern California much like Baltimore rips off Western Maryland. Eventually, people who actually work for a living get tired of paying the freight for homeless, poverty ghettos and pimps, and, in California’s case, tons of illegal immigrants. California is increasingly propped up by federal largess and some very large corporate entities but the tax base, rather than expanding, is contracting.
By your logic, the states that are consistently ranked the poorest and least educated in the country–most of which are in the deep south–are failing because of decades of conservative policies. Do you agree?
Hey Reasonable Man – those Red Southern States you refer to have large black populations. If you wan t to compare Blue States with Red States than let us look at black apples and white apples.
Fair enough, you’re wanting to take the conversation to what liberalism does in cities after decades of abuse.
However, why aren’t you also talking about what just eight years of Republican George Bush 43’conservatism did to this entire country?Just eight years, and look what they did.
Seems to me that what liberalism did after decades, is probably better than what George Bush 43′ did to this country. At least for the middle class and the poor.
It’s really only fair that you talk about both.
No argument from me, RR3. I consider George The Younger and Dumber Bush the worst president in my lifetime. But the focus here is on major CITIES. And most CITIES are run by Democrats.
Obligatory Detroit shot goes here
So, what exactly did GW do that has you so exercised? He responded forcefully to the 9/11 attacks, but then caved to your liberal buddies and fought a war with restrictive rules of engagement. Unemployment was really below 5%, not the fake 5% of the current administration. He tried to reign in the housing bubble, but was stonewalled by Barney Frank and others who denigrated him saying there was no problem with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.
So, you like to listen to AM radio quite a bit, eh?
Let me ask you a question. At this time in GW’s presidency, (8 yrs. 11 months) his approval rating was at 29%. At the same time in Obama’s presidency, his approval rating is now at 56%. 2% from being double of GW’s.
George Bush 43′, destroyed the country he inherited. Obama has always been the president of another country.
Approval rating is irrelevant. GW had the press denigrating him and his administration from day 1. Obama has had the press in his back pocket, backing him up from before he took office.
You are obviously partisan to the left, nothing I say or back it up with will make a scintilla of difference in your opinion so there’s no further use continuing this conversation. Your opinions are based on feeling vs fact (as evidenced by your reliance on approval rating as an indicator of success).
I’ll decide when this conversation ends, not you.
You really should think about giving up drugs and drinking.
And, I think both party’s suck.
Decide whatever you want. When you are reduced to attacking the other person rather than the topic, you’ve pretty much admitted you have lost the debate. Just to clarify for you, the statement “… giving up drugs and drinking is a personal attack with no relevance to the debate. Out.
I spent Christmas this year visiting my older sis in Portlandia. We’re very different people, to say the least. Beautiful natural scenery for sure, but those overwhelmingly white progs are nutcases. The streets are filthy and drug use is rampant. Many here probably saw how badly they took Trump’s victory, in the news.
Yes, the liberals are very quickly ruining Portland, another city I loved to visit in the past. Now it seems every homeless person in the US who under 25 has moved to Portland. They’re everywhere!
Portland and Seattle were sleepy towns before the Californians started moving in around ’89. It was kind of like Denver before the NYC crowd discovered the wild west in the mid 70s. The bay area never really recovered from the Haight/Asbury days. The smart hippies went straight, leaving the burned out ones blocking the sidewalks. And then there was the downtown Oakland hooker rush hour flooding out of Metro at dusk. I don’t much miss the West Coast. Passing thru SFO and LAX is about it.
Coming from a family of New York Jewish liberals, I know liberals really well. I went to high school (Eric Holder and David Axelrod) with New York liberals. Therefore, I delight at the thought of liberals having to be ever vigilant of the human excrement now plaguing the sidewalks of their once fair city. They caused it, therefore, they deserve it. Although liberals would never, and I mean NEVER, consider the possibility of their policies resulting in such a debacle. To them, it is always something (e.g., racism) or someone else (i.e., Reagan, Bush, or now, Donald Trump, their latest Boogieman) at fault – but NEVER them. Liberalism is a mental disease which impairs the ability of the infected to observe and to ponder cause and effect. As a result, their cities literally become third world shit holes. And if liberals have to occasionally scrape shit off their shoes, I say “Schadenfreude.”
At some point the people will realize that it’s liberal policies causing the problems in their cities, even if the politicians refuse to admit it.
Jeanine – just as Jews were the perennial scapegoats for societal tragedies and maladies in the Middle Ages, so have white conservatives become the scapegoats for contemporary liberals and their ethno-centric advocates. It is ALWAYS white racism, white supremacy, white privilege, white backlash and their nasty, evil, mean-spirited Republicans who obstruct and destruct the well-intentioned good people on the Left. There is no doubt, no doubt whatsoever in my sizable, cynical, sarcastic, and sardonic semi-Semitic cerebrum that when a white progressive steps in shit on a San Francisco street that he somehow finds a way in his contorted liberal brain to blame the Republicans.
There is a detailed little booklet, I believe distributed by Grassfire, titled “The New Shame of the
Cities”. It provides statistics on all the large cities which have been run into the ground by perennial leftist administrations. Its a real eye opener.