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I’m born and raised in SF. I love it here. It’s a beautiful city with a nice temperate climate, great food, and some culture. At the same time it does have a hu
by Gimpei 4y ago
I’m born and raised in SF. I love it here. It’s a beautiful city with a nice temperate climate, great food, and some culture. At the same time it does have a huge homeless problem. This has actually always been a problem, but it has gotten worse in the past few years and more deadly with the arrival of fentanyl.
I cannot stand the majority of the current city government and I do think they are responsible for a lot of the issues in SF. SF was blessed by a huge economic boom. Normally this is a great thing for a region: more jobs and higher pay. But the board of support (BOS) has turned it into a nightmare by refusing to build housing. And the worst part is that the wrap their NIMBYism in a veil of smarmy self-righteousness, oblivious that they have ruined the city. When I was a kid, SF was a middle-class city. Now it’s a city of extremes. It’s still a great city, but it could be so much better.
- basisword 4y agoInteresting point on the city being blessed by a boom and then failing to build and take advantage of that. I wonder how things will go now with the potential for a lot of capital to start flowing out of the city (with tech companies going remote etc).
- bradlys 4y agoAs long as housing is treated as an investment - people in SF will continue to not allow housing to be built.