[diogenescynic]

San Francisco is self-destructing and sabotaging its own success. Instead of fixing crime and quality of life issues, they've actively made them worse or gas-lighted residents and done nothing at all. I've always thought it was insane paying the prices of SF to live in squalor and near so much crime. BART is also a completely miserable experience. I don't think anyone wants to commute into SF or live there if they don't absolutely have to. Maybe during the next recession, employers will have more leverage to require more in-office work, but I definitely think employees/talent who can work remote are going to when possible. I know I am and that I never plan to commute back to SF or another South Bay campus ever again. I'll take a pay cut to keep working remotely if I have to.

If SF wanted to clean things up, they'd have cops walking a beat in the Tenderloin--something I never say in the 12 years I lived there. I think the lack of any political competition has led to politicians who don't give a shit about what's best for residents and can just coast off the vote blue no matter who mentality.

[inamberclad]

Beat cops should be a requirement in every neighborhood in every city. It makes the police more human and forces the police to see the populace as more human. I assume it's not done because of a combination of cultural reasons (cops don't want to walk) and budgetary reasons (it's more expensive somehow).