Along Market Street there definitely are some rough spots. But with the team, these past 3 seasons or so, we have had a TON of days off there. Last thanksgiving, we were there for 5 nights. ABSOLUTELY love that city. So much culture. Great restaurants, views. All big cities have shitty parts. With my daughter just committing to USF, she is so excited. The area up on the hill where the school is, is amazing. Great shops, neighborhoods.
I used to live there, and afterward, pre-Covid, went there for business a few times a year. It's never been a clean city, but it sure is a great city. Food, sights, to-do . . . tough to beat. And truly, every city has been hurt hard by the pandemic, not just SF. Look at Portland, NY, Seattle, etc.
It's a great international city and she'll love going to school there. Wealth of things to do and see. Great food....espresso coffee and canoles man...I can smell the coffee just thinking about it.
San Francisco and Bay Area generally had proportionately fewer Covid deaths than many other cities. People wear masks and very high vaccine rates.
https://www.newsweek.com/chesa-boudin-inflection-point-fight-civilizational-sanity-opinion-1714505 Chesa Boudin is, by any reasonable measure, a nut job. Conservatives could not grow a more picture-perfect political villain in a Petri dish, even if they tried; Boudin really is that caricaturable...... .........In short, city dwellers, even in nutty San Francisco, became disenchanted with their needle-bestrewn, feces-bespeckled sidewalks, their homeless encampments run amok and their inability to walk once-safe neighborhoods without fear of being mugged. So they axed Boudin. Boudin's ouster is yet another data point evincing the woke Left's cultural and political overreach throughout the United States. Last November, one year after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump by double-digits in Virginia, Republican Glenn Youngkin ascended to the governor's mansion by running during the campaign's closing stretch as a culture war-centric, anti-critical race theory leader. Elsewhere last November, the left-wing cities of Minneapolis and Seattle defeated a toxic "defund the police" ballot initiative and elected a pro-law-and-order Republican as district attorney, respectively. Those results should have been wake-up calls for "progressive prosecutor" zealots. Indeed, last December, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, herself a Democrat and no progressive slouch, inadvertently foreshadowed Boudin's recall when she said: "The reign of criminals who are destroying our city, it is time for it to come to an end. And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive with the changes in our policy and less tolerant of all the bulls*** that has destroyed our city." Even more recently, when Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis deployed his much-discussed fiscal fusillade in April against The Walt Disney Company for its propagandistic opposition to Florida Republicans' parental rights in education bill, public opinion was on DeSantis' side by a large double-digit margin. Whether it is law and order in the streets or gender ideology in the classroom, the pendulum is now finally swinging back toward the side of civilizational sanity. But the far-left activist wing of the Democratic Party remains as radical as ever. And from fomenting overt anti-prosecution urban anarchy to playing down an attempted assassination of a sitting Supreme Court justice as if it is no big deal, the chasm between grassroots leftists and the sensible median American voter has never been broader. San Francisco, of all places, now seems to agree. Unfortunately for Democrats, even if they wanted to distance themselves from their toxic grassroots (and they don't), it is now too late. Democrats are going to lose badly this November, and they only have themselves to blame.
Jesus, what right wing nutjob who never set foot in California wrote that drivel? And throw in hating gays for good measure. No wonder a certain person hates San Francisco.
I bolded what the mayor said. I'm sure there are out-of-state nutjobs all over the place submitting their opinions. There are the locals, as well. This ain't Kansas.
We already know that, and also know the only reason I moved here was for a woman - my wife. Thanks all the same for sharing, though. If you'd like, start a thread on Nashville crime and we can all sift through that.
So.....you want to trash other people's home towns but you don't like the flip side. What a surprise. Maybe if you added a little seasoning to that crow, it might go down a little easier. Just sayin'.......
Regarding Boudin, I found it at least a bit interesting he was even elected DA considering his family background: Boudin's parents were Weather Underground domestic terrorists and, following the 1981 Brink's Robbery in New York state, convicted as cop-killers. They were incarcerated (Boudin's father was just released last November), and Boudin was thus raised in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood by Bill Ayers. Yes, that Bill Ayers—the one-time Weather Underground leader, domestic terrorist kingpin and erstwhile comrade of another famous Hyde Park denizen, Barack Obama. Boudin's great-grand-uncle, Louis Boudin, was an influential Marxist legal theorist and an active member of the Socialist Labor Party of America. His grandfather, Leonard Boudin, was a radical leftist attorney who once represented Fidel Castro's revolutionary Cuban government. Chesa Boudin himself worked before law school in Caracas as a translator and researcher for Venezuela's (blessedly deceased) socialist president, Hugo Chavez. Oh, and in case you missed it earlier, Nashville is at least making some efforts on mitigating the homelessness front. And, we do have a Democtratic mayor: https://www.newschannel5.com/news/nashville-posed-to-create-an-office-of-homeless-services NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — In the coming months, Nashville could have what homeless advocates have wanted for at least a decade: a department dedicated to people experiencing homelessness. The Office of Homeless Services was proposed in the fall and was up for a second vote on Tuesday night. "I do think building on this consensus to have a single point of contact, authority and accountability is going to serve the city well," said Metro Council Member Freddie O'Connell, who proposed the bill.........................
Chesa Boudin grew up with two incarcerated parents. Well known. Leonard Boudin is a highly respected attorney who defended those others would not touch. I thought in America children weren't punished for their parents... I get it. San Francisco is a hellhole because of queers. Florida is paradise on earth because they banned saying gay. A couple of megachurch Christian ministers ate making news calling for death penalty for all gay and trans people. Waiting for ABM to say he loves it. Or is this San Francisco bashing just an attempt to divert attention from his candidate promoting a violent attempted coup?
