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Re:San Francisco’s Sluggish Recovery Puts Its Top-Grade Cred... by arcticbull on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:08AM (#36641515)
Wow that's crazy. Canada's capital, Ottawa, is similarly sized (about 800K-1M depending on how you slice it) and has a budget of just 5.5B CAD or 4.14B USD. [1]

What in the fresh hell are they spending 3.5X Ottawa's budget on? Surely not street cleaning.

[1] https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/2023-city-of-ottawa-budget-passes-...

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Re:San Francisco’s Sluggish Recovery Puts Its Top-Grade Cred... by Gareth321 on Saturday July 08, 2023 @01:15AM (#36641543)
[This article](https://www.city-journal.org/article/where-has-the-money-gon...) paints a picture of gross mismanagement and largesse.
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