Please let's make smarter choices about where to move businesses to, given numerous options. Oakland definitely should not be one of them.
Please let's make smarter choices about where to move businesses to, given numerous options. Oakland definitely should not be one of them.
Violent crime is twice higher in Oakland, but property crime is about the same: 5,983 per 100,000 in Oakland [1]; 5,715 in SF [2] (6,168 according to [3]).
[1] https://www.areavibes.com/oakland-ca/crime/
[2] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/public-safety/violent-crime-rat...
Poverty is always touted as the source of crime in communities, but businesses moving from SF to Oakland wouldn't be employing Joe/Jolene poor person. If anything, doing so would just rehash the standard complaint about gentrification and alienation of current residents.
population of Chicago: 2.716 million (2017) population of Oakland: 425,195 (2017)