> Around Market and 9th to 11th, a mostly residential and expensive main and small streets …
What?! This is just flat out wrong. The area around 9th and Market is basically civic center BART station; which was a low rent neighborhood where most of the residential buildings were SROs. Twitter got tax breaks to put their office there because it was and still is a dump. Even after you cross Van Ness into Hayes Valley you are still not in a fancy / exclusive neighborhood. Like the projects used to be right there.
> Safest it has ever been
Yes. There was a time when you could get shot in the Fillmore, Chinatown, the Mission and most definitely in the TL. Now the only place where you might run into that kind of trouble is bayview / hunters point / sunnydale - and I don’t know why you would ever go out there.
Transit is awesome. Best public transit in western US mainly because of density - the city is only 7 miles across. Have you tried public transportation anywhere west of the Mississippi before? I’m terms of schedule / timeliness, who looks at the actual muni schedules? Just use NextBus and go out the to stop like 3 mins before your bus arrives like a normal person.
Anyway, I could go on…
I agree that for all the fact base / revenue that SF gets the quality public schools are a travesty. But they have always been trash - with the exception of Lowell.