> vkou: "poor urban planning, poor transit, horrific traffic, high costs of all services, and insane rents for shitty apartments"
> also vkou: You mean "totally different stuff"
No. The first things, not the second set of things. Do you feel a need to be this way?
> The goalposts sure have shifted over the past decade
Yeah, that stuff was charming when that's all it was. It was old and crowded and expensive because nothing was modern or planned to be upgraded. How quaint.
> The reality is that [Chesa] wasn't the cause
Yeah, like I already said. But he doubled down on it long after it was clearly stupid and killing people, and he did it ideologically which meant he'd never see facts even if his nose was rubbed in them, and that ideology was based on missing his parents as a child because they were in prison for murdering police and security in an armored car heist. It combines to make him the spokesman for toxic progressivism.
> tons of petty crime (Most metrics of which peaked in the 2016-2019 period, by the way
Everyone in SF knows that's because they don't take reports of petty crime now. They literally don't even log calls - the same way poop on the street became.