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Maybe it's not wise to comment on this while living in Germany and never having been to SF. But my first thought was: Are they gonna shuttle the kids in and ou
by avhception 9mo ago
Maybe it's not wise to comment on this while living in Germany and never having been to SF.
But my first thought was: Are they gonna shuttle the kids in and out of the city in order to provide said childcare? Or the staff? How would the staff afford housing in SF on a "normal" salary? Where would they build the required buildings when land costs an arm and a leg?
- zingar 9mo agoThe staff in my baby’s London nursery all live outside of London. Edit: or are very young and live with their parents.
- Jensson 9mo ago> Are they gonna shuttle the kids in and out of the city in order to provide said childcare? The city itself is tiny, this is not the metropolitan area of San Francisco, its just the city limits, so yeah people in suburbs will commute into the city to work there, just like most other people working in San Francisco.
- teaearlgraycold 9mo agoThere's also great (by American standards) public transit into/through the city. Caltrain and BART can get you into SF quickly from quite a large area nearby.
- socalgal2 9mo ago"by American standards" is doing a lot of lifting. On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd give SF about a 4 compared to cities like Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Seoul, Singapore, ...
- jnathsf 9mo agoCaltrain is no slouch - punctual, clean, safe, really good wifi, electric.
- lazide 9mo agoIt also doesn’t get you around the city (and isn’t near any significant number of schools). It is good for getting in and out, assuming you already have a way of getting to the Caltrain station which isn’t exactly in the center of the city.
- teaearlgraycold 9mo agoEventually Caltrain will go to Salesforce tower
- Jensson 9mo agoThat is the baseline, not a high bar.
- mapotofu 9mo agoI don’t understand the boosters saying BART and Caltrain are good systems. When I lived there, and part of the reason I left, those systems were frequently delayed, full of drug addicts, and they lacked comprehensive service throughout SF, requiring dependence on Muni, which is worse than the other 2. I don’t think those who say this is a great system have been exposed to how other places in the world handle these things.
- gundmc 9mo agoI've never experienced any of these on Caltrain in the last ~10 years, for what it's worth.
- Aloisius 9mo agoReally? You haven't seen frequent delays in the last decade? Not even for the (sadly) semi-regular pedestrian fatalities that happen once or twice a month? Those usually delay trains for over an hour. Caltrain's own reports say there are hundreds of late trains every month.
- dietr1ch 9mo agoMaybe you were the drug addict?
- teaearlgraycold 9mo ago1. I live and work around BART stations so it works well for me 2. I just ignore the drug addicts 3. The delays are there but it all works well enough to be very useful
- physicsguy 9mo agoI've been to San Francisco twice with work. The last time was in 2018. I caught a Muni bus, the drive drove past someone at a stop who was in a wheelchair and was signalling to be picked up, another passenger challenged the driver, and the driver shouted something like "I don't want no cripple pee pee-ing on my bus"
- ThePowerOfFuet 9mo ago>great (by American standards)