One of the thousand of so times this came up recently, I tried to look up actual data and found property crime rates had increased quite a bit in San Francisco

One of the thousand of so times this came up recently, I tried to look up actual data and found property crime rates had increased quite a bit in San Francisco in the last decade and were higher than comparable cities, but every other kind of crime was a normal or lower-than-normal rate and hadn't changed much. Of course, that doesn't mean anything if the real problem is behaviors pissing off residents aren't classified as crimes. It is far from impossible to quantify quality of life using measures other than crime rates, but I'm not sure who still does that. I haven't personally been in San Francisco since 2007, but I do remember back then that world rankings of livable cities consistently included San Francisco as the only American city in the global top ten, so to drop from that lofty position to this perception of a post-apocalyptic hellhole is quite a contrast. It does seem to me that the nature of the complaints don't seem unique to San Francisco. I've had my catalytic converter sawed off twice in the last five years, my car ransacked once, power tools taken from my garage, and gigantic homeless encampments are all over the place around me, in good old Dallas. My work office that I visit quarterly is in downtown San Antonio, and they have the same issues, too. Streets are overloaded with people wearing rags who haven't showered in ten years wandering out into the street and yelling at ghosts, sleeping in the doorways you have to step over to get into the building. From the outside, it seems to me like residents of San Francisco are mostly pissed off that they're paying so much to live there, yet still experiencing all of the problems normally associated with poor neighborhoods in cities. Even that isn't unique to San Francisco, though, as city centers have becoming increasingly hip places to live. My neighborhood is not poor, and I don't think downtown San Antonio is poor, but rapidly increasing property values don't just eliminate all of the poor people if they live on the street. It only eliminates the low end of the buyer market, not extreme poverty.