[jtown,man]

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

I read page 1 of comments. I just lived in SF for 7 years (and recently moved away for a million reasons, not all of them SF related but many of them wholly SF related) and worked in commercial real estate there (private equity/development). I have moved away and while there are aspects of that city I absolutely miss, I agree with Chris08876 on his points made on page 1.

In fact, I'm still fairly emotionally invested in the city, and its commercial real estate, which is why I'm bothering to post, but the politics in that city have me so steamed that I just cannot even anymore.

That city is the blind leading the blind. I just cannot even any more. Good luck to it and its people and may patience, extra extra extra patience, reach its populace who see the world through similar lens as I do. Many other cities (including the one I moved to) are not as much "on fire" as SF is (in terms of global economy etc), but many many other cities are actually benefiting from SF pointing a gun to its own head. SF will suffer its own consequences and they are starting to bear.

It's the same crazed mentality that makes housing and real estate in general there so tricky to navigate as the mentality that gets Chesa Boudin elected to DA. In my opinion, it's literal insanity. I don't care whether it's the kind of insanity that you see "on the streets" there, or the insanity coming from your SF friends on social media, or the insanity in laws/propositions that get passed that make solving the very problems plaguing that city that much harder to combat (real estate related included), but it's insanity.

How about Prop D on Super Tuesday that penalized local landlords for having vacancies by taxing them? Literal insanity. It's a slew of other [mostly local] laws/[propositions] passed over the years and a slew of macroeconomic (and local cost-of-living) conditions and changes that have resulted in more retail vacancies around town. Let's add another tax and make it HARDER to own/operate real estate in the city. That's the SF political way and they happen to think their ideology and solutions are the best and that everyone else is a dolt.

Over it.

Holy crap. I just looked up that DA. Why do people think not dealing with "quality of life" issues is a good thing? That's the type of shit that will get regular people like me to move to the burbs after a time.