San Francisco got too expensive.
The hippies and other silly people have been moving out for many years. They can’t afford the rent (they are gradually aging out in rent-controlled apartments). New/young lefties cant find apartments here unless they have a high paying job, and that sort certainly wont risk that by rioting. So Portland has become the hippie city.
More or less the same with gays also; SF is much less gay than formerly, though the economic driver isnt quite as effective as gay people are more likely to find good jobs. The crazier sort is being driven out.
The biggest effect of high rent is on blacks. Nearly the only ones left are in public housing and SF doesnt have very much of that.
All true.
The MALE homosexuals often do stay in the city because there are TWO male incomes. Their combined income is usually greater than that of two female homosexuals.
Besides, as I wrote above, San Francisco has a Chinese mayor, Ed Lee. The Chinese are, by culture, very conservative, both financially and socially. They elected a conservative.
THEY also team up as families and buy a large house where all kinds of Chinese relatives come to the USA for our MUCH cheaper education. They then return to China because that is really where they want to be...with an American education and an improved English.
They still say "flied lice" for "fried rice," no "r" sound for the FOBs or CIAs.