Take this with a grain of salt, but back when I was last in SF in 2018, it was easily one of the most disgusting cities I have ever been in. I live and grew up

Take this with a grain of salt, but back when I was last in SF in 2018, it was easily one of the most disgusting cities I have ever been in. I live and grew up in the Midwest and have been to most of the Midwestern cities (sorry St. Louis, some day I'll visit you) and a handful of other cities. Garbage lined the highways like I've never seen anywhere else, it was truly surprising and something that sticks with me years later. I spent most of my time downtown, but did venture to other parts. The nice parts of SF were really nice, but you'd go one block away and there would literally be people shooting up drugs on the sidewalk. I've spent a lot of time in Seattle as well, I really love Seattle, but it's quickly becoming very similar in parts. It makes me sad, both because of the suffering but also because it makes me not want to be in either of those cities. I don't think y'all really understand how abnormal that stuff is, and it's blatantly the fault a greedy and incompetent political body hiding behind the masquerade of performative politics.