san francisco is a shithole and i will never go back

[muhammad ali macgraw]

piss smelly, unsafe city with aggressive vagrants.

[sonatine]

i mean, once upon a time, it was the vanguard of creative insanity for the world. but between AIDS and silicon valley, theres nothing left but a few good meals and some decent LHE games within an hour or two drive, providing you dont try to get to them during rush hour.

beyond that its a town propped up by the single biggest real estate scam in human history and has been for 20 years at least.

[big dick]

One of my favorite towns in the U.S

[JimmyG_415]

This 100 %, (except not sure how aids factor in) 99%.

There is so much foreign money, it like the Russians and the Chinese are combining to play a pump and dump scheme on SF RE.
AirBnB is getting eliminated HOA after HOA, block by block, & tech has to hit a ceiling at some point, right?
about 90% of american adults are online???? & Trump is not helping them make $ overseas.

But for now, tech is printing money & 60 % still can't afford a home now??? .............There is an implosion coming.............I'll never leave, due to the weather.


60 percent of tech workers in survey say they can’t afford a home in the Bay Area
https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/ar...y-13132157.php

i mean, once upon a time, it was the vanguard of creative insanity for the world. but between AIDS and silicon valley, theres nothing left but a few good meals and some decent LHE games within an hour or two drive, providing you dont try to get to them during rush hour.

beyond that its a town propped up by the single biggest real estate scam in human history and has been for 20 years at least.

[sonatine]

This 100 %, (except not sure how aids factor in) 99%.

There is so much foreign money, it like the Russians and the Chinese are combining to play a pump and dump scheme on SF RE.
AirBnB is getting eliminated HOA after HOA, block by block, & tech has to hit a ceiling at some point, right?
about 90% of american adults are online???? & Trump is not helping them make $ overseas.

But for now, tech is printing money & 60 % still can't afford a home now??? .............There is an implosion coming.............I'll never leave, due to the weather.


60 percent of tech workers in survey say they can’t afford a home in the Bay Area
https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/ar...y-13132157.php

i mean, once upon a time, it was the vanguard of creative insanity for the world. but between AIDS and silicon valley, theres nothing left but a few good meals and some decent LHE games within an hour or two drive, providing you dont try to get to them during rush hour.

beyond that its a town propped up by the single biggest real estate scam in human history and has been for 20 years at least.

gay culture kept that town going 24/7 back in the days. like it literally drove + financed the night life, which drove the drug underground, which basically financed the arts.

a lot of very rich, very generous, very interesting people died of AIDS and no one replaced them. the vacuum was eventually filled by dot com corporate scumbags.

but yeah long before the New Chinese Millionaires started sheltering their money in SF, there was this hyper shady real estate underground where the same fucking houses would get flipped to the same circle of 'investors' who would hire the same circle of renovators. basically the same dollar got passed around a few hundred times a year which created this illusion of a wildly healthy real estate market when in fact they were deliberately gaming the numbers and keeping like 80% of available units off the market to give the illusion of competition.

the old-world Chinese triad types were certainly in on this but the new Russian and Chinese wealth was drawn in by this shell game, they didnt create it.

[hongkonger]

SF is one of the world's great cities.

[Suicide King]

As a third gen San franciscan I can say op is correct.

[Jayjami]

SF is one of the world's great cities.

As someone who lived there in the 80’s, it is a shell of its former self. Still the 3rd best city in America for food however (behind NYC and New Orleans).

[Dan Druff]

This 100 %, (except not sure how aids factor in) 99%.

There is so much foreign money, it like the Russians and the Chinese are combining to play a pump and dump scheme on SF RE.
AirBnB is getting eliminated HOA after HOA, block by block, & tech has to hit a ceiling at some point, right?
about 90% of american adults are online???? & Trump is not helping them make $ overseas.

But for now, tech is printing money & 60 % still can't afford a home now??? .............There is an implosion coming.............I'll never leave, due to the weather.


60 percent of tech workers in survey say they can’t afford a home in the Bay Area
https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/ar...y-13132157.php

i mean, once upon a time, it was the vanguard of creative insanity for the world. but between AIDS and silicon valley, theres nothing left but a few good meals and some decent LHE games within an hour or two drive, providing you dont try to get to them during rush hour.

beyond that its a town propped up by the single biggest real estate scam in human history and has been for 20 years at least.

I know you love the Giants, but why not move 400 miles down the road to coastal southern CA?

Better weather (less rain, more sunshine but not many hot days), and real estate is cheaper (though definitely not cheap).

[Dan Druff]

SF is an interesting place to visit, though, provided you stay away from the horrible neighborhoods and due the usual tourist things.

I still love the cable car. It's totally a huge safety hazard (at least the last time I rode it), with people allowed to hang out of it, but that's part of the fun. I try to ride the cable car whenever possible.

It's really the only place in the western US which has some similarity to New York.

Wouldn't want to live there, though, and the real estate has become insane.

[sonatine]

SF is an interesting place to visit, though, provided you stay away from the horrible neighborhoods and due the usual tourist things.

I still love the cable car. It's totally a huge safety hazard (at least the last time I rode it), with people allowed to hang out of it, but that's part of the fun. I try to ride the cable car whenever possible.

It's really the only place in the western US which has some similarity to New York.

Wouldn't want to live there, though, and the real estate has become insane.

Yeah this is actually a solid point, there are a ton of great ways to do a trip to SF for a few days and really never get exposed to the horrors that otherwise define it.

But yeah I know that if had to suffer that shithole for any real period of time, 80% of my waking hours would be spent at Artichoke Joe's or Lucky Chances and the rest would be spent at the Chinese hotpot place in the Sunset District.

[JimmyG_415]

LOL,
This post to a San Franciscan, is what a Guatemalan saying 'don't come to USA, they are heartless & will take your kids' is to Stephen Miller/Trump.
Thank you.

piss smelly, unsafe city with aggressive vagrants.

[big dick]

You're a homo right Jimmy? Why don't you like SF then? Figured it would be right up your alley