I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled
In early 2020, before lockdown, I visited San Francisco as a tourist with my wife. We took a wrong turn at a book store and wound up on a street covered in feces. The next street was fine. Then on the next, we watched a homeless woman shoot up on the street. Then a supercar pulled into a garage.<p>I&#x27;m not the best traveled, I&#x27;ll admit, so I can&#x27;t compare SF to foreign cities. I&#x27;m a simple hillbilly from the Southeast, but I lived in NY for a time and I&#x27;ve visited most of the big cities in the US.<p>This was my third time in SF. Every time I&#x27;ve visited, since 2016 or so, I&#x27;ve collected another story like this.<p>The homeless are way more aggressive than they are in Chicago or Texan cities. The feces. The crime.<p>Now people are moving away. The author is in denial. San Francisco has nice weather and beautiful hills, but it is a really expensive shithole. A really, really expensive shithole.<p>Now look at the leadership in the city, and ask yourself, who is responsible for this?<p>I&#x27;m so glad I chose to live in Texas, but at this point I&#x27;d move to the Detroit area before San Francisco. At least the rent is good there.<p>In any case, the census data shows I&#x27;m not alone. I just hope the Californians moving to Texas don&#x27;t vote for the same laws that made San Francisco such a hole.<p>Also, I&#x27;ve always refused to move to Silicon Valley, despite working in tech. I don&#x27;t regret it.