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The City That Starship Built Is Turning Nasty

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San Francisco continues to the world-capital of smug progressivism, but is increasingly the kind of city no sensible person would want to live in.

“With a crime rate of 70 per one thousand residents, San Francisco has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes,” says the data collection site Neighborhood Scout. “One’s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 14. Within California, more than 98% of the communities have a lower crime rate than San Francisco.”

Smash-and-grab thefts from locked cars are so common that car repair shops have waiting lists. The city does not want to install surveillance cameras, and its aversion to tougher law enforcement had until recently left its police force at 1980s staffing levels.

On the hazardous waste side, the city is reporting an increase of syringes and feces sightings at 41 and 39 percent, respectively, over 2015 levels​. That’s just an average. The hardest-hit area reported a 77 percent rise in discarded syringes and a 140 percent rise in feces. The city spends about $2 million a year on urine and feces cleanup.

But the city’s smug, progressive leadership is too busy passing ‘Sanctuary City’ ordinances to worry about silly things like crime and public health. “We’re a world-class city and the scenery is beautiful,” proclaim the city’s progressive elite as they pause to scrape hobo dung from the bottom of their $600 cross-trainers.

Maybe to all of those “tech workers” from Hyderabad and Tijuana, it’s just natural to have to step around piles of human feces as you walk down the street. And only a retrograde deplorable would consider it uncivilized not to have his car broken into once a month.

But, y’know, it’s all worth it to live in such terrific weather with such iconic landmarks… like Alcatraz, Folsom Street, and Starfleet Headquarters.

The city’s finances are equally “progressive.”

Despite $9 billion in tourism revenue and $4 billion in tax revenue last year, San Francisco faces a perennial budget deficit in the billions factoring in generous pension costs, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Apparently, if you’re a trustafarian, a tech billionaire, or a wealthy Chinese/Arab immigrant, you can live well in San Francisco. For regular people, it sucks.

I remain baffled at why people choose to pay so much to endure a progressive, urban culture.

Comments

  2. The city has always been a mess, at least since I’ve periodically lived or visited it starting in ’78. It’s going to be one thing or the other in any of the left coast cities. This human waste issue plaguing several cities around the world is a deal breaker.

    Some cities are overwhelmingly exciting to live in despite the negatives. Mostly for those younger than 40 or so. Modern cars make it easier to commute nowadays so people are moving out to the rural or out of the way. You can conveniently find literally anything, in SF. No matter how sick your desires are. Everyone has their secrets; without exception.

  4. I’m fine with people in SF living this way if that’s what they want to do (based on their choice of politicians, I assume they’re OK with this stuff).

    What I don’t want is SF lefties imposing their worldview on the rest of us.

    Personally, I think the idea of a place where men and women, boys and girls can walk down a street or attend a local park without being accosted or being forced to witness human depravity.

    Florence King once wrote of how lefties manage to lament that which they help destroy (cities come to mind).

  5. They also hide the horrific suicide rate of gay teens in the city. This puts the lie to the idea that gay teens are pushed to suicide by bullies. As a city that is arguably the most tolerant of gays in the world, the rate should be one of the lowest. It isn’t. No where close.

    And add in the deficit spending, and you have yet another reason to cut California loose.

    We can get our winter veggies from Arizona.

  6. James Hetfield of Metallica moved out of SF after living there for many years. it was largely due to this progressive nonsense. Michael Savage supposedly still lives in San Francisco.

  9. I near near a similar size city, Boston, MA. I keep seeing condos built up in and around the Boston area. These condos aren’t cheap to live in either and are actually quite pricey. So why aren’t there any affordable apartment complexes being built since it’s already expensive enough to live in the Boston area?

  10. I confirm, San Francisco and its faune, is by now getting almost as snob, as unaffordable, as smelly, as obnoxious, as bureaucratic, as hypocrite, and as obsessively politically correct (pardon the redundancy with the previous item) … as Paris. Of ~ 10 years ago.

    Without the bi quaterly public sector strikes and/or protests — which have been replaced with monthly riots from whomever about whatever, as of today:

    https://youtu.be/gB7YI30wWso

    Funny, it does seem the tax payer funded (read: stolen) free sh*t still ain’t coming fast enough.

    Whodathunk?

    Can’t wait to see that happen at either ends of the Golden Gate in turn, when the kommunifornian chickens come home to roost.