San Francisco turned ghost town?: Dave Chappelle ‘what the f happened to this place ?!’

San Francisco is possibly the most desired place to live in the USA. Estimates show that with affordable housing the population would be four times what it currently is in the Bay Area.

Texas is the number one emerging state in the nation and soon will not be affordable. It is a wonderful place for someone young to move.

 

San Francisco is a garbage can. The amount of human **** in the streets in San Francisco is worse than cities in third world countries. I'll take Houston over San Franshitsco any day

 

When was the last time you were in SF? That is absolutely not the case in any of the parts of SF that I've been in.

 

Last year. I hope you're right, the homeless Asian people made me sad

 

Excellent coffee shops in San Diego

 

Frisco is tech everest. It's more an iceberg where a lot of young people are struggling to say afloat. Oakland is quickly gentrifying despite the crime.

As for why it's a ghost town, that might be why 75% of Cali's latest covid numbers are coming from Socal. They are more likely to follow health guidelines and common freakin courtesy.

The way Austin has been awfully planned for future development makes me think it's not going to be better off as transplants swarm there for better pastures.

 

I have a lawn cut business that is doing surprisingly well, and one of my clients just moved to a nice new home in Murfreesboro TN (just outside Nashville) and I told him welcome here and how does he like it. He replied it’s like he moved to the United States and is loving it lol , I didn’t ask which part of cali he moved from but he said the homeless problem was crazy there .

 

Is Austin building in suburbs or no ?

 

You may not like San Francisco but it is one of the most desirable places to live on the planet.

My law firm attempted to broker a deal for a rail and affordable housing in the area and were essentially told it would never happen. The area is in extreme demand and it's value continues to only climb. In that Bay area, for every person living there, there are 3-4 others that would live there if there was more housing.

Houston is an in demand area as well. The whole of Texas really is. Houston and Dallas are two of the hottest cities in the world. Still, the demand for the Bay Area out strips anything in Texas right now.

 

I'm not saying it not desirable, SF has some nice places and great food, I was just shocked to see **** on the sidewalk in front of Millennium tower. I've only been there once though and I was only there a week so you're depiction is probably more accurate than mine. My sister lives in San Jose but when I go out there we usually go to Oakland and other bay area towns

 

San Francisco is and really always has been for many years, a place to live only if you have money to afford private schools and a solid home...... the area is in such demand that the cost is incredibly high.

The area will be perfectly fine, COVID will not last forever. I can tell you that the investors are not being scared away by COVID in that area.

 

Just to be clear, I am not saying your opinion is wrong only that there are a lot of people that would like to live there. There are a lot of very unique and odd things about San Francisco that make it a very desirable place to live but also a place that is difficult place to live. Also the homeless are a serious issue. It is only a matter of time before someone comes into office and drives them out. The area is very liberal, they are very generous in certain ways, but it is also an area that has gone out of it's way to ensure that there are no large apartment developments and that there isn't affordable housing. It is a playground and home for the very rich.

 

SF is largely a victim of its own success. What's making SF unaffordable and squeezing out diversity isn't so much of all the regulations, taxes, and even homeless (many cities have homeless) but it's the success of the tech boom. The very reason why many tech workers want to live in SF is because of it's reputation as a progressive, diverse and cultured city. Those same people have jacked up real estate prices pricing out a lot of the people that created the vibrant culture of SF.

All of that said that doesn't mean that SF and the SF Bay Area still isn't a desirable destination. I co-own some property there and I get an offer pretty much every week for it.