The flaw with your comment is that you could pretty much post it in any city’s subreddit or discussion forum and it would be a common trope.

There’s always a bloc of people who believe that everything has gotten out of hand these days, everything is chaos, things were better back in the good old days. It’s unproductive bitter nonsense.

Then they go on and complain about the bloated city budget without doing any research on why that is. In San Francisco, many revenue generating agencies that normally aren’t part of city government feed income into the budget, like the Port of San Francisco, which makes the budget look bigger overall. It has departments that in other cities might be part of county or state government instead. Also, San Francisco is legally required to balance their budget.

I’d like to say that my advice to bitter city forum members would be to just move already and get it over with, but we all know they’d spend their time complaining about the next place they’re living.