I've lived here since the early 90s, with a break in 00s. The city has gone down hill, no doubt. Rent increases have chased off my artsy friends, which is the

I've lived here since the early 90s, with a break in 00s. The city has gone down hill, no doubt. Rent increases have chased off my artsy friends, which is the primary reason I'm going to follow - I'm far less fond of greedy nerds than I am artists. San Francisco just isn't very interesting anymore. Crime is really no worse than anywhere else - look at the stats, don't listen to the hyperventilating. Crime did weird things during COVID and still looks different than it used to. It is no more San Francisco-specific than inflation is US-specific. That said, my local neighborhood has gone to hell - that's mostly a function of cops deciding to funnel campers on our street. (I'm not going to argue with people who claim the cops don't do this - they do and will admit it is "verbal policy", but only off the record.) So yeah, on balance, I would not have moved back here today. But that is not because of crime or shit on the streets, it is because the town's character is mostly gone. Anyone who thinks SF crime was the result of Chesea's policy needs to explain two things about Jacksonville, Florida: (1) why they're seeing murder spikes, and (2) why nobody is calling for their DA's head. https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/like-covid-19-jacksonvilles-homicides-surge-in-2020-and-top-out-at-unprecedented-175/77-a277f699-2eed-4c43-837e-72b057ad155c https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/like-covid...