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This isn't anything new. I can remember seeing that 40 years ago on my first trip to San Francisco. I was shocked, wondering how people could live in an area like that.
I mean, when you walk back to the lot where you left your truck and there's a fresh pile of human shit next to your front wheel, it gets your attention.
San Francisco has been a shithole for the last 50+ years, this ain't nothing new.....
ReplyDeleteLuckily, she’ll move elsewhere in the US. Somewhere nice with high social cohesion and low diversity…then she’ll voat for policies to change it and make it “better.”
ReplyDeleteAn alternate, more honest title to this article would be 'When reality slaps you in the face'.
ReplyDeleteor sticks to your shoe
DeleteOr puts a needle through your shoe.
DeleteTypical democommie: Head in the sand, refuses to admit the truth, denies, defends the indefensible. The whole world has known for 25 years that SFO is a dangerous, repulsive shit hole. How did this lady not know? She reminds me of a woman who'd send a love letter addressesd to 'Any Male Inmate.'
ReplyDeleteBack in the 40's one of my dad's co-workers sold his house and car, bought a truck, packed up the family and headed to California, spent one night and drove back to Atlanta. Must have been psychic. Atlanta is a few years behind, I think. I have only been through on the expressway in a number of years.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia being my home state I grew up in the 60s and 70s. It was great until Reagan left as governor. I am from Southern California and my wife is from the Silicon Valley. We met in college at UCLA and what was once great in all parts of the state has been destroyed by the Democrats. We left 25 years ago when my company moved me to the east coast and it was a good move. Many of my and my wife's family still is in the state, but many have moved out.
ReplyDeleteI'd say though an LA paper has lot of chutzpah in pointing out the sins of SF.
ReplyDeleteThink of it this way: LA has HIV. San Fran has full-blown AIDS.
DeleteAlmost 50? years ago, outside the Federal Building in downtown Seattle, I stepped in it before my appointment... (expletives deleted)! And I was counting myself lucky for finding a diagonal parking spot on the street.
ReplyDeleteThe people in the story are the problem. They should stay put because they are like the poop in the street. They should not be allowed to destroy another city they move to.
ReplyDeleteYep, Kenny, I recon it's been just about exactly 40 years since the never ending studies and reviews and public meetings and voting on how to deal with the need for public access to restrooms was THE hot ticket political imperative in the city.... I mean, it was about then when we all got tired of it enough to just drop trow and shit.
ReplyDeleteIt was MEANT to force them into action.
Too many people were making too much money getting paid fortunes for coming up with copious words on paper for anything like shit on the streets and outbreaks of cholera to move them to act.
My son lived in San Luis Obispo for a few years. He was the VP of a jewelry company that made jewelry out of decommissioned nuclear facilities, specifically the copper cables that ran from the computers out to the actual missiles.
ReplyDeleteAs part of his job, he would go to festivals and set up displays, and sell some of their stuff, and also get people to go to their website, and order things. He told me that the place he hated, and refused to go, after 2 years, was San Francisco. Nothing about the garbage or the human waste, just the vibe of the people there.
One neat thing, when the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps came around, his company was commissioned to do a medallion commemoration it's Golden Anniversary. On a less fun note, Al Gore gave them a big shout out in some news rag, due to them trying to source everything from the USA, including findings, recycled packing boxes, even recycled leather for some of their hanging necklaces.
My son married a Cali girl, and moved her back to Michigan, after he could not stand it in CA any longer. Now she is in love with Michigan, and in charge of the entire food service of a rather large hospital. They bought a 3 story log home, with both a wood fueled boiler and geothermal heat/cooling. It is on 20 acres in farm land, and I shot a spike horn white tail there last year. This year, he shot one of the biggest 8 points that I have ever seen from this area.
He did tell me that in the northern part of California, it is beautiful, but he just couldn't live with their government anymore.
40 years ago it was hippie shit or drunken sailors
ReplyDeleteIn the early 70s, when we be sitting around and someone would say, how about a road trip? We'd pile into my VW and off we'd go. San Fran would usually be part of it. Loved the place. Beautiful, much different vibe than Denver, good food...
ReplyDeleteWhat got me was the open air, homo debauchery. I'm a live and let live kinda man but turning a corner and seeing a couple men engaged in oral sex was over the fucking line. Seriously, get a fucking room.
After a half dozen or so times seeing this crap on various forays, I just avoided the place. Went through there a couple years ago but didn't linger, still beautiful from afar.
After fighting a forest fire at Big Sur for 3 weeks I quit the crew to head for college and hitchhiked up 101 to San Francisco to catch a flight. I spent the day in San Francisco, got hit on 10 million time by cults, queers, street weirdos, more queers and sick people. What a day, it taught me that every news article, movie, song or story about San Francisco was a lie. I have never seen such wide spread corrupt human filth so accepted by other corrupt people who pretend to care about others. The rest of the US have no idea how sick that city is.
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