A "failed city" and "$#!+hole" with some of the most expensive housing in the country? That can't possibly be a seriously-intended claim. If SF is in such obvious trouble, why is it that everyone still wants to live and locate there?
Probably because they can earn good money for a few years and then move somewhere they actually desire?
Personally seen this play out in Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore for a long time. There's a huge contingent of knowledge workers who have no intent of putting down long term roots there. It's just somewhere to extract wealth from with high paying jobs and housing costs are simply another acceptable tax on that.
Stay a decade, make bank, move somewhere where you can work at leisure. Isn't that the dream?
People come for a variety of reasons. The mystical allure of the historical vibrancy of the city shouldn’t be discounted. Mostly work though. That’s changing as tech flees SF.
Because this BS about crime in SF is just a republican pushback against "defunding the police" which never actually happened. It's a propaganda effort to push the pendulum further fascist. Villainizing and smearing a well known progressive city to let others know that won't fly.
And rich white tech bros complaining about crime and homelessness from their ivory tower is disgusting. You're so detached from how humans actually live that you're threatened by just SEEING them, not even experiencing it.
Bullshit. Have you seriously walked around SF recently? Had your car broken into, watched someone shit on the street in broad daylight? Watched blatant brazen shoplifting?
It’s impossible to avoid. It’s worse and worsening. Pretending it’s not is the worst sort of self-deception.
