16 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

  1. Everyone blames the politicians. They are just another “symptom”. The root cause is the people electing the politicians – look in the mirror.

  2. Rampant auto theft/vandalism, “wandering hands”, open defecation and urination.
    “It’s not a purse, it’s European.”

  3. Ha ha ha ha … her only previous experience in the Bay Area was in Piedmont. Ha ha ha ha … BTW … Piedmont is NOT part of Oakland. It is it’s own city, with its own police department … that is far more interested in PROTECTING (from Oakland uh, “residents”) and SERVING than ethnic and gender balance of their employees.
    Piedmont is an island in the ugliness that the East Bay (and San Francisco) has become. It is a white, elitist (if you will) enclave. Barely a square mile of an independent city where only the highest earners can afford to live. Here … perhaps you can find a fixer-upper for less than $ 1.3 mil.
    https://www.zillow.com/homes/?
    isList=false&searchQueryState=%7B%22mapBounds%22:%7B%22west%22:-122.252148,%22east%22:-122.208202,%22south%22:37.812445,%22north%22:37.833191%7D,%22pagination%22:%7B%22resultsPerPage%22:40%7D,%22regionSelection%22:%5B%7B%22regionId%22:6495,%22regionType%22:6%7D%5D,%22filterState%22:%7B%22isMakeMeMove%22:%7B%22value%22:false%7D,%22isAllHomes%22:%7B%22value%22:true%7D%7D,%22isListVisible%22:false,%22isMapVisible%22:true%7D
    This gals mistake was that she visited one of the few UNreal enclaves of the Bay Area RICH. The rest of the Bay Area has become a sh*thole compared to what it used to be. And BTW … the Haight is the druggie version of Las Vegas … a nostalgic Disneyland for adults …

  5. One thing that kinda says it all about San Francisco is the number of homeless people who have a dog.
    Some genius years back woke up one day and said “Wait, we have homeless people AND dogs in the shelter–they can support each other!” So as you walk around you’ll see people laying on the street with a little cup for begging for spare change, and some unfortunate dog beside them also has a little cup. Folks will walk around with a pocketful of dog kibble and put a few pieces into (hopefully) the dog’s cup.
    People voted for politicians who thought up and executed that. Probably re-elected them too.

  6. Same cause different issue:
    https://slate.com/business/2018/03/the-florida-bridge-collapse-shows-how-accelerated-bridge-construction-can-go-wrong.html
    “So it is hard not to see the tragedy of the University City Bridge as a kind of metonym for the reckoning that Florida has long been setting itself up for. Designed to withstand the biggest storms nature could throw at it, the structure couldn’t withstand a perfect storm of hasty planning, managerial incompetence, and human hubris.”
    Substitute whatever you wish for “structure” such as:
    Any city name, like SFO
    Renewable energy rush
    “De carbonization”
    You name it.

  7. There is some serious mental illness in the comments to that article.
    That said, I started visiting San Francisco in the early 80’s. I liked it enough to drive up from Silicon Valley to stay there when visiting for work. There were some crappy areas, but you just avoided them. I used to stay at the downtown Hilton. It was new, clean, a bit expensive but my Hilton status always got me upgraded to the Towers section. In the evenings I would walk the city to find new and exciting restaurants.
    In the early 90s things started to noticeably change. I pretty much didn’t have reason to visit again until a couple of years ago. I booked the Hilton, and was surprised how cheap the room was. Arrived at the hotel to find that the gold plating had pretty much worn off the doors, the glass was covered in all sorts of crap, I remember staff being there to remove any fingerprint within 30 seconds previously. The big spacious reception area was now a bar, with flashing lights and loud music. Where the nice quiet bar used to be was a mini-mart. I almost turned around and walked out … but it was only for a couple of days …
    Each day I walked down to Market St. to visit the client I was working with (Uber). Each day the display of filth and mental disease on the streets just got worse.
    The San Francisco that I used to love has gone. It has been replaced by a wicked parody. No matter where I went, it just got worse.
    I won’t be going back.

  8. First, Inspector “Dirty Harry” Callahan and Lt. Frank Bullitt retire from the SFPD and now look at the city….

  9. After reading the article remembering how it all came about, my only comment is “What else did you expect?”

  10. My apologies for the language, but everything liberals touch turns to sh*t.
    I wonder how many more decades of this it will take for people to connect the dots.
    Name me one thing that is getting worse ever year in the USA, and I can easily connect it to liberals.
    The problem is in great part liberals/democrats and the media that has stopped informing people about 50 years ago and is now campaigning for liberals 365 days a year.
    Everything liberals touch turns into sh*t.

  11. Funny how the author was not able to nail down the reason. Sure, she mentioned corrupt city officials. But I did not see any mention of party politics at all.
    If you can’t put a name to the problem, you can’t solve the problem. And Democrat government in large cities is the root problem here. And elsewhere.
    I am sure she will head back to New York and think it is utopia.

  16. From our city’s newspaper last Thursday: “Councillors hear demands from tent city campers”. These aren’t “campers”, they’re either activists (mostly) and their clients (otherwise known as useful idiots) who have set their tents on the grounds of city hall.
    Another recent headline said: “Homelessness spreads onto school grounds.” The answer was not to roust those who shoot up before nodding off for the nigh, but to increase the patrols to clean up needles before the school day.
    Of course city council will cave. Who wants to seem unsympathetic or callous when you’ve got taxpayers dollars at your disposal? After all, the demands are perfectly reasonable: social housing, needle exchanges, ‘safe’ injection sites and a drop in center. No mention of treatment to leave the lifestyle of course, because the lifestyle is now legitimized.
    The sad part is in the letters to the editor: “Empathy needs to be shown” and “housing is a right”. But then this is an old union/NDP town and always has been.

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