Maybe the media I read is skewed. It is mostly what I link to from HN. I lived in Sf about a decade back. There were a steady stream of articles even way back

Maybe the media I read is skewed. It is mostly what I link to from HN. I lived in Sf about a decade back. There were a steady stream of articles even way back then about how San Francisco was falling apart. Like yeah the Tenderloin is a ghetto and there are not enough public bathrooms. But the rest of the city is pretty safe. The biggest problem by far were the housing prices which is why I moved out. A decade later the Tenderloin is still a ghetto, still not enough bathrooms, and the housing prices are still too damn high. And there are still articles about how it is on the verge of collapse.