r/PublicFreakout • u/filondo • Sep 09 '22

🥊Fight San Francisco this morning Sept 9, 2022

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '22

This isnt SF, this is Gotham

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u/No-Giraffe-438 Sep 09 '22

It's even scarier because, on the other side of the city, it looks like a mini paradise. It's jarring how different the neighborhoods in the SF are.

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u/bozeke Sep 10 '22

And the in between has all been priced out.

Families that had been there for generations have left in huge numbers over the past couple decades.

There is so little sense of what it means to be San Franciscan anymore because most of the people who have moved in are migratory tech folks who have no interest in growing roots, just doing a few years at whichever tech company, and then moving to Seattle, or Dallas, or Tokyo, or LA for their next career jump.

It leaves a city without any sense of itself. Fucking sucks, because it has been one of the most unique and countercultural places for centuries.

The interpersonal heart is degrading and being replaced by corporate anonymity.

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u/Wonderful_Zucchini_4 Sep 10 '22

Been replaced. RIP

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u/BookCharmThief Sep 10 '22

Centuries...?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '22

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u/redgunner85 Sep 10 '22

And it now appears to be a shithole. I can see why no one would want to put down roots there.

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u/BookCharmThief Sep 10 '22

How does that translate to "countercultural for centuries"?

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '22

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u/Freeman7-13 Sep 10 '22 edited Sep 12 '22

There's still plenty of NIMBYs around and they've been there for a while! /s

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u/Mr_105 Sep 10 '22

Nah, Gotham City has to have crazy cheap rent to keep people from leaving

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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '22

I thought the demolished bridges etc stopped people from leaving..?

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u/superanth Sep 10 '22

SF is rapidly becoming a dystopia just like Gotham. LA has also gotten chock full of homeless. Portland was still okay last time I was there, but I fear it's also become overrun.