San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest ever recorded: data

Re:San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest eve... by zo1 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @06:49AM (#38529713)

I've been to and grown up in a bunch of those African cities. As long as you don't go to dodgy areas you're perfectly fine, even dirt-poor areas are fine. Sure your houses are little mini fortifications and security is everywhere in "rich" neighborhoods. .. but it's a nothing burger for the most part.

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Re:San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest eve... by OfSanguineFire on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @06:54AM (#38529734)

I have cycled Africa extensively and I would agree for most cities on the continent. Africa is very safe in spite of dumb stereotypes, even when one is entering cities through the sprawling impoverished neighborhoods, and locals don't warn a visitor against anything. But Nairobi and South African cities have a mugging problem that all local people showed great concern about, and sometimes "dodgy area" is a central district of the city.

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Re:San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest eve... by tim333 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @01:08PM (#38534655)

I guess it depends a bit on what you compare it to but the murder rate in Cape Town is about 10x that in SF and both seem quite bad to me as a Brit.

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Re:San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest eve... by acuozzo on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @02:09PM (#38535499)

How's Monrovia?

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Re:San Francisco now at 35% office vacancy rate, highest eve... by OfSanguineFire on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:57AM (#38545563)

It has been a few years, but I don’t remember it as any different from the previous West African capitals (Dakar, Bissau, Conakry, Freetown) that I had cycled into.

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