Re:How San Francisco became a failed city
by AtlasBarfed on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:59AM
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How long have you lived there? Are you "poor" by SF standards?
These are the long term trends I've seen in my lifetime (50 years, nonresident but visited ~5 times):
- dotcom/SV pricing out almost everyone else
- leading to, unsurprisingly a homeless crisis
- also worsening the property value NIMBYism continuing to exacerbate the housing crisis
- the dystopian culture destruction effects of a host of services designed for apartment shutins built in-town or south of town
- finally, a host of policy failures enacted due to excessive virtue signalling and a social left wing gone rampant, although actually this is political paralysis of various NIMBY virtue signalers doing what they can to stop the undermining of their property values.
A lot of these are issues faced by other cities as well, hamstrung by two party deadlock at various levels of government.
These are the long term trends I've seen in my lifetime (50 years, nonresident but visited ~5 times):
- dotcom/SV pricing out almost everyone else
- leading to, unsurprisingly a homeless crisis
- also worsening the property value NIMBYism continuing to exacerbate the housing crisis
- the dystopian culture destruction effects of a host of services designed for apartment shutins built in-town or south of town
- finally, a host of policy failures enacted due to excessive virtue signalling and a social left wing gone rampant, although actually this is political paralysis of various NIMBY virtue signalers doing what they can to stop the undermining of their property values.
A lot of these are issues faced by other cities as well, hamstrung by two party deadlock at various levels of government.