The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. – San Francisco (2009)

Re:The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. – San Francisco (2009) by homosaur on Friday January 25, 2013 @09:14AM (#5115461)

In my admittedly anecdotal experience, long-terms San Franciscans can't stand anyone outside SF period. SF does everything it can to make the experience of visiting and doing business in that city as miserable as possible.

1. Affordable short-term housing or hotels? Yeah, you're going to be staying across the bay. 2. Parking is miserable and parking enforcement are total fascists. You can't even refill a meter. 3. Pandhandlers everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I'm not talking about just homeless, I'm talking about scientologists, 9/11 truthers, people raising money for Africa or the cat shelter or whatever. I've never been as harassed on the streets as I've been in SF. Just because I stopped for 3 seconds does not mean I want a pamphlet, dude.

SF loves being a self-imposed alternaculture concentration camp which is fine with me when I don't have to go there on business.

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Re:The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. – San Francisco (2009) by malandrew on Saturday January 26, 2013 @04:25PM (#5121812)

Totally agree on housing and hotels, but not on parking. Do you go to NYC on business and complain about the parking there? No, probably not because it's simply unnecessary. There is no reason that SF can't develop in that same direction.

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