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I live in SF and volunteer in the Tenderloin. I absolutely love it here. No idea what is going on with the public perception of this city. Just seems like a lot

I live in SF and volunteer in the Tenderloin. I absolutely love it here. No idea what is going on with the public perception of this city. Just seems like a lot of political hot air. When you get down to the street level and actually talk with some of the people out here, you realize that they are people too. There’s a lot of humanity missing from the discussions about SF. Things might be dirty or smelly or even unsafe in particular areas, but I wouldn’t trade living here for anywhere else. And I’ve lived in a lot of places.

AtlasBarfed 4y ago
How long have you lived there? Are you "poor" by SF standards? These are the long term trends I've seen in my lifetime (50 years, nonresident but visited ~5 times): - dotcom/SV pricing out almost everyone else - leading to, unsurprisingly a homeless crisis - also worsening the property value NIMBYism continuing to exacerbate the housing crisis - the dystopian culture destruction effects of a host of services designed for apartment shutins built in-town or south of town - finally, a host of policy failures enacted due to excessive virtue signalling and a social left wing gone rampant, although actually this is political paralysis of various NIMBY virtue signalers doing what they can to stop the undermining of their property values. A lot of these are issues faced by other cities as well, hamstrung by two party deadlock at various levels of government.
Redoubts 4y ago
> No idea what is going on with the public perception of this city Really? > I’ve lived in a lot of places. Really? How much broken car window glass have you seen in SF, vs other cities? It’s easily the top for me, by far. How many times have you personally seen someone shooting up on the sidewalk, or shitting on it, vs other cities? San Francisco takes the cake here vs any other city I’ve seen, in the US or abroad.

AtlasBarfed 4y ago

How long have you lived there? Are you "poor" by SF standards? These are the long term trends I've seen in my lifetime (50 years, nonresident but visited ~5 times): - dotcom/SV pricing out almost everyone else - leading to, unsurprisingly a homeless crisis - also worsening the property value NIMBYism continuing to exacerbate the housing crisis - the dystopian culture destruction effects of a host of services designed for apartment shutins built in-town or south of town - finally, a host of policy failures enacted due to excessive virtue signalling and a social left wing gone rampant, although actually this is political paralysis of various NIMBY virtue signalers doing what they can to stop the undermining of their property values. A lot of these are issues faced by other cities as well, hamstrung by two party deadlock at various levels of government.

Redoubts 4y ago

> No idea what is going on with the public perception of this city Really? > I’ve lived in a lot of places. Really? How much broken car window glass have you seen in SF, vs other cities? It’s easily the top for me, by far. How many times have you personally seen someone shooting up on the sidewalk, or shitting on it, vs other cities? San Francisco takes the cake here vs any other city I’ve seen, in the US or abroad.