The reality about life in SF is that it’s many, many different realities. The negativity on this site desperately wants to make it an all or nothing situation, but experiences living here range massively. THREAD
Every neighborhood is different and obviously socioeconomic constraints greatly impact what living here feels like. Downtown and the Tenderloin especially need a ton of work and the neglect from @chesaboudin is piling on the problem.
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The biggest takeaway for me is that there is so much light if we can let it through all the dark. And that requires effort and reform and productive conversations. Cynical hyperbole + abandonment are weak. I could live with it if there wasn’t so much need to trash SF in departure
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Many of the cities problems are solvable but the Supervisor model is broken. Rent control is solvable (meaning: it can be fixed, not eliminated). Lack of a true POV and policy on drug use and homeless populations is solvable. Housing is solvable.
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It’s a MUCH better use of our time to focus on those solutions vs. debate and compare to other coastal cities. We have to ignore those who would describe SF as entirely broken and beyond repair. We who ACTUALLY live here, have families here, own houses here, know it’s not.
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But it does require energy and effort and real action. Energy and effort that is wasted arguing with people who have left or were too weak or are too inauthentic to actually try to change anything.
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