Crime, Fentanyl and Exodus: The Crisis That Is Devastating San Francisco

The problem is that far too many are deeply entrenched in their political idealism and misplaced desire to appear compassionate for anything to change. There is NOTHING compassionate about allowing thousands of people to be consumed by their addictions and essentially abandoning entire neighborhoods to the crime and total lack of safety that comes along with it.

In 1950, Detroit had the highest per capita income in the US. If you think that a city being wealthy means it can't collapse think again

I moved to San Francisco in 1986. Left after 37 years I feel like I left my heart there. It is just a bittersweet feeling The City I loved and both my son and grandson were born is not at all what was. I’m a heartbroken old man that can’t stop remembering the smell of coffee roasting at Hill’s Bros plant on Embarcadero. The City doesn’t smells good, no more.

I'm from London and went on holiday to California last month and SF and LA shocked me how bad the streets were

The crime rate has gone up far more than reported. Police aren't bothering to press charges in most cases because the prosecutors don't prosecute. So the crime doesn't show up in statistics.

Even before fentanyl, you would walk down any street in soma or Fillmore and homeless people would be openly injecting or smoking crack with police doing nothing. People literally would shit in the street and social customs are to just avoid eye contact and pretend it’s not happening. On my first day at work I got swung on by some lunatic shouting at demons. The only thing I could do was slip his punch and keep walking. It’s truly a disgraceful place to live or visit these days.

I went for vacation to SF last year and someone broke a window in my car in plain daylight in downtown and stole everything including my passport. Then a war in Ukraine started and I got stuck in California for SIX MONTHS until Kiev issued a new one. It was absolute shock for me to discover a situation happening in SF. I wish I would know before and would avoid that from happening 🤦🏻‍♀️ undocumented, with no soul in foreign country for 6 months…Just crazy

I had family visiting from UK. SF was on their bucket list. I told them that it would be costly and a BIG disappointment. They still wanted to go and see. They felt that as a former Calfornia resident and someone who worked and lived in the Bay, I was being overly critical. Upon their return, they were astonished how bad things were are that people were just allowing things to happen and going with what was their norm. They also went to LA and again were astonished how bad the US has become. Their exploratory trip was so eye-opening, and they said they would never move to CA and couldn't believe how bad things were in SF. Their finally thoughts were aligned with mine, which is that SF is now just a postcard city. It only looks good from afar and is actually dangerous and declining at a faster rate than any other major city. It's a shame that the state of CA isn't interested in keeping the state safe or attractive. The only good things left in the state are the weather, ocean, and some of its natural beauty. I see why people are leaving SF at such an alarming rate.

As a former SF resident, housing is indeed problematic, my family's attempts to take back our rental house has been a war of attrition.

“The Biden administration is combatting the Fentanyl crisis by asking China to not export Fentanyl anymore.” That made me laugh out loud 😂

My parents spent their honeymoon in San Francisco in early 1963. They described a beautiful, vibrant, interesting, clean, friendly, colorful and affordable city full of beautiful department stores, wonderful restaurants, exciting nightclubs and interesting specialty stores of every kind and full of amazing city life. Folk music was all the rage at the time and there were many clean-cut groups of college age singers and musicians performing positive songs about a better world. SF is now completely opposite of everything there was at that time. It is a filthy, corrupt and increasingly empty nightmare. I wouldn't go in that city in broad daylight. The horror stories I keep hearing don't surprise me at all.

I’m heartbroken at what SF has become. I spent half my life there. It’s really bad and the citizens there are at fault. They like to feel good about themselves but won’t lift a finger to help anyone- and this is the result.

As a world traveler who goes to foreign countries alone multiple times a year, San Francisco is the only place I've ever been that I felt unsafe. As the sun set I felt a primal instinct to get off the streets asap.

Detroit feels disrespected

It's America's mental hospital

I lived in San Francisco for years and it was a really terrible place 10 years ago. These days I go there enough to know that it's exponentially worse and heading down a path of no redemption.

The next Robocop reboot will be in San Francisco

How do you not mention the homeless? It’s the biggest problem in the city. The exodus is just beginning. Things will continue to deteriorate until the jobs come back.

I last visited San Francisco in 2019 and I will never go back. It's a complete disaster.

SF in the early 2000s felt like every bit of how it was portrayed in the movies. Special times in that city