I live in Oakland and while his depressing description can apply to some neighborhoods, to say that it's "everywhere" is totally false. Go up into the hills and you won't find a bunch of graffiti or needles or squalor. You'll find very nice neighborhoods.Eastern Oregon Bear said:Has there been investigative reporting about other cities? I haven't been to the Bay Area in about 15 years, so I have no current knowledge, but I also know the right wing media has made the Bay Area their whipping boy in recent years, so I've tended to attribute a large amount of bias to the reports. I also suspect it's probably a tiny fraction of the area in the city having those problems. That said, I've been to East St. Louis and other near third world hellholes around St. Louis and I can't believe San Francisco or Oakland are in those kinds of conditions.oski003 said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:Why do you call the people of Chicago, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Cleveland, etc. nobodies?oski003 said:Big C said:movielover said:
When I travel through Oakland now, it almost looks like a Mad Maxx movie. It seemed in the past there were sections which were poor, but not what we see today. Trash everywhere, graffiti EVERYWHERE ... On top of the graffit on buildings and fences, its on lamp posts, mail boxes, trash cans. Trash everywhere. I stop at a Vietnamese place out on International Blvd and there is graffiti above the awnings on the brick buildings, everywhere imaginable. The curb has graffiti. It just seems like complete lawlessness and lack of order.
I believe Oakland and San Francisco are each hundreds of officers short.
It seems some of the graffiti in Oakland's Chinatown and The Mission (SF) multiplied during Covid lockdowns. I'm sick for the shop owners.
It's amazing that Oakland real estate and rent prices are still so high. If only a couple of hundred thousand people would read the above post, they would realize they are living in crap... "EVERYWHERE". They just don't seem to know it. Sad.
Wake up, sheeple of Oakland!
The geography and weather of southern California up to the bay area is absolutely incredible. Nobody would live in these conditions if it was the middle of the Midwest.
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634626538/san-francisco-squalor-city-streets-strewn-with-trash-needles-and-human-feces#:~:text=San%20Francisco's%20streets%20are%20so,on%20the%20majority%20of%20streets.
"San Francisco's streets are so filthy that at least one infectious disease expert has compared the city to some of the dirtiest slums in the world.
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit surveyed 153 blocks of the city in February, finding giant mounds of trash and food on the majority of streets. At least 100 discarded needles and more than 300 piles of human feces were also found in downtown San Francisco, according to the report."
I didn't realize the other cities you mentioned has as much per capita filth as Oakland and San Fran.
The homeless problem has definitely gotten worse in recent years, but the narrative that entire cites of hundreds of thousands of people and expensive real estate are essentially equivalent to the Third World is bulls**t exaggeration from the right wing (which has always had a hard-on for dumping on the Bay Area).
