Subject: Re: Small Tidbit
WilsonKnight: GOOD....the disenfranchised and downtrodden ---are *slowly* figuring out that the good stuff is in affluent Liberal parts of the city.

Dope1: BBbbbbut they told us that crime wasn't a thing, and it was all a made up right wing conspiracy theory?


As I wrote in another thread: "A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest."


From the article (posted beneath the subhead, What's behind the city's slump?):

Several factors may have contributed to San Francisco's economic struggles.

The city's tech-heavy workforce embraced remote work in 2020 and has yet to return to the office at the same levels as other major US cities. Office vacancies in the city are at a 30-year high, and many people have permanently left; San Francisco County's population declined by more than 60,000 people from 2020 to 2022, according to US Census estimates.

The decline of in-person work coupled with diminished tourism to San Francisco during the pandemic has translated to shrinking foot traffic in the city's once-bustling downtown retail center.

So, the pandemic and its aftermath are the keys factors for the decline of retail traffic.

Sure, some "attention-grabbing videos of store robberies" are a contributing factor but "violent crime statistics in San Francisco have remained relatively low in recent years".

In fact, by clicking the link in the article, the reader learns that "larceny theft" is down 7.1% from the prior year.


https://www.sanfranciscopolice...