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San Francinsco's city government is completely incompetent and the city itself has devolved into a disgusting cesspool. But if you live in the city, you don't
by freyr 7y ago
San Francinsco's city government is completely incompetent and the city itself has devolved into a disgusting cesspool.
But if you live in the city, you don't mention this. Instead, you loudly proclaim at every opportunity that San Francisco is best city in the world, and you express your pity for the poor schmucks who are forced to live anywhere else.
The crime, the drug addicts, the homelessness, the mental illness, the broken car windows, the absurd cost of living, the blighted neighborhoods, the pervasive human misery, the garbage, the heroin needles, the human feces -- this is to be considered part of San Francisco's urban charm. Anyone who acknowledges how bad the situation has become should be ostracized, downvoted, or told to move to Walnut Creek.
You especially shouldn't be critical if you run a tech startup in the city, since you need a continual supply of young, impressionable employees to buy into the hype and move here.
But once you move just outside the city perimeter, then you can afford to be a obliquely critical of the city's slow bus lane construction.
- kick 7y ago'pc proclaims that San Francisco is the best city in the world elsewhere on his site. Your critique has a tinge of irony to it. https://patrickcollison.com/advice https://patrickcollison.com/advice
- seem_2211 7y agoI think both things can be true at the same time. San Francisco is an amazing place to work in technology (in my view, nowhere else comes close). But the municipal government is also a complete cesspool of inefficiency & corruption.
- fredsanford 7y agoI wrote a song for San Francisco after reading so many negatives... To the tune of Dancing in the Street by Van Halen (In the background) (taking a shit sounds... grunting farting) Dropping out around the town Are you ready for a big brown stain Summer's here and the time is right for shitting in the street They're shitting on Gough Street (they'll be shitting) At the MOMA (shitting in the street) Up at Fort Point (shitting in the street) All we need is fiber, (sweet sweet) sweet fiber (sweet sweet fiber) There'll be piles everywhere There'll be ooooohing, ahhhing, farting, squatting Shitting in the street It doesn't matter when or where As long as you shit there Whether you're a guy or a girl. take a shit while you twirl There'll be shitting It's just an invitation for defecation don't get it on your feet There could runny or solid, but guaranteed to be squalid Shitting in the street. All we need is fiber, (sweet sweet) sweet fiber (sweet sweet fiber) There'll be piles everywhere There'll be ooooohing, ahhhing, farting, squatting Shitting in the street It doesn't matter when or where As long as you shit there Whether you're a guy or a girl. take a shit while you twirl Shitting in the street. The San Francisco way! Shitting in the street.
- kenneth 7y agoFinally moving out of SF was the best decision I ever made. It only became clear once I was removed from SF for enough time. Fuck that place. Yeah, it's the home of technology, but it's slowly rotting and dying and it makes its resident miserable terrible people. I'm happy to be living somewhere I love now (HK). And if things ever change, I'll hope not to make the same mistake and stick around so long.
- freyr 7y agoCongrats on getting out! I started a new job here a few months ago, but I'll be requesting to transfer to a remote team as soon as I hit my 1-year mark.