The Most Empty Downtown in America

[@Bellasie1]

"For the past decade, San Francisco has worked hard to turn its downtown into a vibrant hub, providing a model that other cities in the United States looked to emulate. 😳 In the wake of the pandemic, however, blablabla..." Are you serious? This has nothing to do with the pandemic: when it started, the city center had already been turning into a literal cesspool for at least half a decade! 💩

[@ohhs7830]

Downtown SF has become a lawless cesspool. Tourists and convention bookings are drying up because this once beautiful city has been taken over by tents and people living on the sidewalks. SF has been only high tech for the last twenty years. SF was a very popular tourist destination before tech. Now, high end retail and the jobs they provided are leaving because stealing has become such a problem. Car break-ins are rampant. I used to enjoy visiting SF. Not now, is it's just unsafe and disgusting. Your story missed the whole point of the destruction of a once great city.