San Francisco's budget is vastly less efficient than other comparable US cities: http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/the-worst-run-big-city-in-the-us/Content?

San Francisco's budget is vastly less efficient than other comparable US cities: http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/the-worst-run-big-city-in-the-us/Content?oid=2175354 http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/the-worst-run-big-city-... As for people living vs. working in SF, this comment does an excellent job explaining it, with sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10875936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10875936 tl;dr: The increase in population due to daily workers commuting in from outside is vastly smaller than in NYC.