[wankerrific]

I agree about the major first dotcom bringing people who didn’t care for the values and culture of the city but disagree about the roughness. The mission and the part of soma near the old trans bay terminal were pretty rough. People got mugged in broad daylight kinda rough

[sammalloy]

I was living in the Mission and working near SOMA. Never had a problem in ten years, and we would be walking to and from work and to the bars until close. There was 1% of the homelessness back then that you see now, and almost no sign of drug addiction on the streets except for a few blocks of some rough areas. The city was generally considered one of the safest to live in the country at the time, and easily affordable. Inequality changed everything, because the people who moved into the city did so to exploit its workers, its housing, and its resources. That’s when all the true creatives moved out and the bean counters and disrupters and fake privacy advocates moved in. While it’s popular to blame midwest software engineers, the true blame lies in vast swaths of old money from back east, which attempted to turn San Francisco into Manhattan, and destroy all of what made the city great to begin with. They succeeded.