The whole thing, if you have a strong enough stomach, must be read to be believed.
Was just there and the place is a mess!!
"You can get around by the kindness of people's hearts," said Jaclyn, a 25-year-old who would only give her first name"
Wonder how far Jaclyn plans to go in life living on kindness? What a wing nut!!
Chain stores? Is that what they are calling the McDonalds at Stanyan and Haight?
“San Francisco fights over its character”
That boat has sailed.
last time i was in CA we drove thru Sf while going from palo alto to sausilito.
we didn't stop in SF--just drove thru. i couldn't think of any reason to stop there.
(i hadn't been in CA for almost 40 years). we probably missed out on SOMETHING, but i can always read about it on the internet.
Uh...er...um...uh... What could anyone with an IQ above 70 say in response to that???
I read the whole thing. I guess they really don't realize that San Francisco has no character to lose.
I have no desire to go there.
That's part of the problem.
One of the first things Mayor Moron Newsom said he would do would be to get rid of the bums (er, homeless). Instead, one of the first things he did was to illegally peform GAY marriages. As everyone knows, he hasn't done ONE thing to get rid of the homeless on the streets. I'm a SF native & resident. In the Marina, just a few days ago, a man was urinating right on Chestnut street. I couldn't believe it. The reason is, people pay them to stay. Every time you plunk money into their cup, you are paying them to stay. They may be homeless, but they're not fools. They're going to stay where they're being paid.
HaHa. This is why SF's population went down from 776,733 (2000) to 745,774 (2003). It will always attract a share of hippies, but while the rest of the country is growing, SF is shrinking. In a few years, it will not even be in the top 20 cities in terms of population (in 2003, it was 18th; it may already be out of the top 20). It's something that places like SF and Detroit are shrinking, while Sunbelt towns in Arizona, Florida, and Texas are growing. People are voting for political ideas with their feet.
"An effort to clean up some of the city's seedier neighborhoods and rid the streets of junkies, hookers and runaways has run headlong into San Francisco's free-to-be-who-you-are ethos."
You forgot the homeless. I remember going there 5 years ago and seeing 5-6 homeless in a huge, drunken brawl in front of city hall.
Then I crossed the bay, saw Berkeley and was even more disgusted.
San Franciscan's need to all join Bum-anon, 'cuz they are all enablers and don't realize it.