nine years ago my wife worked in the airline industry, which meant we could fly for free. We used to fly from Seattle to Burbank at oh dark thirty, rent a convertable, spend the day in the area, and fly back that night.
We decided to try it with San Francisco once. But the catch was we had to fly into oakland and take the train into town. So, we take the bus to the train station in oakland to catch the train to San Francisco. But the crowd was so “troubling’ at that station that after a half hour there, we took the surface transportation back to the airport and caught the next flight back to Seattle.
It literally felt like one of those “post apocalyptic” movie sets. I was concerned for our safety, and at the time I bicycle commuted through some very ‘iffy” neighborhoods into Seattle every day.
And now that my daughter moved out of Studio City, I’ll never see California again. I have no more desire to go there than to visit Sudan.
It literally felt like one of those “post apocalyptic” movie sets.
It's a shame that the actor Tom Hanks, who is from Oakland, never gets the message. I've seen a few interviews where he gets all nostalgic about Oakland. Just another reason not to trust a liberal.