[McKenwood]

While SF has its problems, I feel like the bigger problem is Nextdoor.

This.  I was born in SF and I'm currently raising two kids here.

The neighborhood Phogge cites -- Golden Gate Heights -- is one of 16 nearby neighborhoods on my NextDoor feed.  It's one of the nicer ones and it seems like 3/4 of the complaints come from its residents.

Yes, SF is currently at what I would consider crisis proportions of both homeless people on the streets and car smash-and-grabs.  It's exacerbated by the fact that the homeless are in your face compared to other cities because they live in the same neighborhoods as tourists visit.

But SF isn't the hellhole that Fox News would have you believe.  As someone who lives in SF, I can tell you that aside from those two issues crime rates are the lowest they've been since the 1960's, and my kids have to go out of their way to see a homeless person.

First moved to SF in 1980 after growing up in the Bay Area. Lived a lot of different places after that but moved back in 2012. Generally been a really positive experience. Walk to work, walk to great restaurants and an easy jaunt to first class recreational facilities (Presidio, Chrissy Field) that did not exist when I first moved to the city. Cultural elements are also first class. Violent crime is down from 1980 but quality of life issues are at the forefront now (dirty streets, homelessness, petty thievery) but these elements were all there when I lived at Geary and Hyde. So much complaining on NextDoor you would think we are living in West Philadelphia circa 1983, which was far worse than anything in SF now. A lot of whining by people who never want SF to change and have been responsible for the last 40 years for the severe under production of housing.

Question now is what SF will become. City Government spends $11B and is largely ineffectual. Police/DA combination is potentially detrimental. Police don't want to leave Cafe Greco and Cafe Trieste to make their presence felt and the DA has turned 31% of the vote into a complete overthrow of the system. So things could get (a lot) worse but things will change for the better if guys like Aaron Peskin are removed at the ballot box. London Breed has proven to be largely ineffectual. I remain an optimist.

[McKenwood]

While SF has its problems, I feel like the bigger problem is Nextdoor.

This.  I was born in SF and I'm currently raising two kids here.

The neighborhood Phogge cites -- Golden Gate Heights -- is one of 16 nearby neighborhoods on my NextDoor feed.  It's one of the nicer ones and it seems like 3/4 of the complaints come from its residents.

Yes, SF is currently at what I would consider crisis proportions of both homeless people on the streets and car smash-and-grabs.  It's exacerbated by the fact that the homeless are in your face compared to other cities because they live in the same neighborhoods as tourists visit.

But SF isn't the hellhole that Fox News would have you believe.  As someone who lives in SF, I can tell you that aside from those two issues crime rates are the lowest they've been since the 1960's, and my kids have to go out of their way to see a homeless person.

First moved to SF in 1980 after growing up in the Bay Area. Lived a lot of different places after that but moved back in 2012. Generally been a really positive experience. Walk to work, walk to great restaurants and an easy jaunt to first class recreational facilities (Presidio, Chrissy Field) that did not exist when I first moved to the city. Cultural elements are also first class. Violent crime is down from 1980 but quality of life issues are at the forefront now (dirty streets, homelessness, petty thievery) but these elements were all there when I lived at Geary and Hyde. So much complaining on NextDoor you would think we are living in West Philadelphia circa 1983, which was far worse than anything in SF now. A lot of whining by people who never want SF to change and have been responsible for the last 40 years for the severe under production of housing.

Question now is what SF will become. City Government spends $11B and is largely ineffectual. Police/DA combination is potentially detrimental. Police don't want to leave Cafe Greco and Cafe Trieste to make their presence felt and the DA has turned 31% of the vote into a complete overthrow of the system. So things could get (a lot) worse but things will change for the better if guys like Aaron Peskin are removed at the ballot box. London Breed has proven to be largely ineffectual. I remain an optimist.