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'm not the best traveled, I'll admit, so I can't compare SF to foreign cities. I'm a simple hillbilly from the Southeast, but I lived in NY for a time and I've visited most of the big cities in the US.<p>This was my third time in SF. Every time I've visited, since 2016 or so, I'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'm so glad I chose to live in Texas, but at this point I'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'm not alone. I just hope the Californians moving to Texas don't vote for the same laws that made San Francisco such a hole.<p>Also, I've always refused to move to Silicon Valley, despite working in tech. I don't regret it.