Posted on 08/16/2009 9:50:43 AM PDT by Kozman
In many ways, San Francisco is one of the most overrated cities in the country. There are homeless everywhere. Just a couple of blocks from the San Francisco Hilton and the Parc 55 Hotel is the Tenderloin District. It looks like a bombed out third world country. There are homeless everywhere, many walking around, half naked, stoned out of their minds.
This morning I am in a Starbucks near the Palace Hotel, sipping some green tea. One of the Starbucks' employees comes up to me and says. "Be very careful with your laptop, don't even leave it unguarded for a second." I look up, on my right are two women sitting on a couch, the employee goes over and tells the women the same thing with regard to their purses. Then I notice that in the next chair over is a guy sitting without any Starbucks coffee, or anything else Starbucks, and he looks like a mugger, if I have ever seen one...What's amazing is that these two mugger types aren' t even hiding the fact of what they appear to be in the Starbucks for. They are both just keeping their eyes on the purses...
(Excerpt) Read more at economicpolicyjournal.com ...
Absolutely. Of Course and For Sure.
Both your links take me to a April 28th, 2004 article about Arnold.
Only link is front page for now.
Here is the correct link.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2009/08/they-have-their-lost-minds-in-san.html
Were they too liberal to throw the non-consuming “customer” out of their store?
Whoops, wrong link. Here’s the correct link:
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2009/08/they-have-their-lost-minds-in-san.html
Woot. We’re a linkin’ roll today.
Can you feel the luv!?
BTW: It is the most OVERRATED city in the United States. All the great restaurants can't compensate for the rampant homeless population (and the smell of BO when you go into a bookstore with one of these folks), the rather boring retail scene (more important to my female relatives) and the fact that it feels like an overgrown small town (it is smaller in population than San Jose and San Diego). Combined with the most annoyingly smug people in the US (and that says alot considering all of the smug a-holes who live in San Diego, Monterey, and other coastal towns in Cali), and you have a place best left avoided.
Damn straight.
Two hundred and fifty million dollars per year.
“They Have Their Lost Minds in San Francisco”
Old news... very old news... decades old news...
My very liberal and affluent son and his wife live in the city and they love it. They can afford to have bleeding hearts while their tax dollars pay the police to keep up that thin blue line so they can be safe in their house. I think if the barbarians stated pounding on their locked gate in front of their front door then they might get a different opinion.
went to SF with the family this summer. I felt naked without my CCW and there were a couple of times when I wished I’d had it. the bums are very aggressive and congregate in certain areas. we were warned by the hotel staff where to avoid
My daughter and SIL live in SF. They’re moving to Texas at the end of the year. They can’t wait to get out of there.
This is presented as a recent revelation. This is only a discovery to those who are new to the planet.
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