Mind you the people who live in SF are also not commuting into downtown. That contributes to it feeling dead during the pandemic.
But that doesn’t mean the city died. People are still here, you just see them less. Especially if like me you’re one of those folks continuing to work from home and seeing the same few people all the time.
I mean if I judged from my personal experience I’d say there’s 500 people in the city. I even see all the same homeless folk on my runs and can tell who hangs around which block or street corner.
Something like >300k people commuted into the city every day. That's increasing the population by like 50%.
Would be curious if anyone can find reliable data on this.