Thanks for this video. I lived in the Bay Area in the 1980s and exited BART at Civic Center every weekday. One aspect that is remarkably different now is the lack of small businesses along this walk. There used to be hundreds of small shops thriving and triple the amount of pedestrians. To my eyes, the place looks vacant now compared to then. San Francisco was amazing then…
What blows my mind is that people in America want to see America failing. They want to believe it has completely fallen apart and their belief is right. They want to rub it in people's faces that the 'Left" way of governing is dangerous and will lead to the downfall of everything. I just would like to know when this fanatical way of black and white thinking really took over in America? It most likely started at 9/11 and slowly became normal for people to react that way. If you want to see your own country fail, you need to check your head, because something went bad in there a long time ago.
You walked from Civic Center to Montgomery and back to Powell. Go down Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Street. Walk around Civic Center, go down O'Farrell and Jones.
The entire country is actually under a globalist occupation. Your President Joe Biden signed a Pandemic Treaty with the United Nations and the W.H.O. to give up our sovereignty during the "plandemic". Fact checkers will say I'm lying but you know damn well if you live in a Democrat controlled state leadership will be in lockstep with the WHO directives. @@richardalvarez2390
Looks like heavenly paradise?!? Where are the homeless !?! Am I missing something they made it seem like the homeless have taken over San Francisco CLEARLY NOT THE CASE!?!
As a local, I can tell you that the pedestrian traffic is only about 20% of what it was pre-pandemic, and about 50% of the shops and restaurants along Market are empty. Very depressing to go downtown, although if you go out into the neighborhoods west of Van Ness, things are very lively.
I lived in SF for almost 40 years . left in dec 2021. This looks like a lifeless city now. Compare these scenes to the years previous to 2020 . This city was buzzing with activity and people at lunch time in downtown and south of market. There were people everywhere . Businesses and restaurants were full of customers. People moved about with some purpose in their step. What i see in this video is a sad looking city that will take a least a decade to get anywhere near what it was. My wife and i moved to THailand and were in Bangkok last week and there is absolutely no comparison . BKK was clean , no needles , no junkies passed out , no murals of dead drug dealers , very little graffiti. A city of 12 million. It was polite and civiilized. Everyone courteous and helpful. beautful temples and a stunning mall that was more like a palace. The Thai people can have nice things without fear that a pack of feral animals will destroy it. I loved SF but this makes me sad to see it so lifeless.
@@jorgegl3306 Thailand is better than America and far better than San Francisco, open your eyes and pay attention to what's happening! Repent and believe the gospel of Jesus Christ or you will have your part in the lake of fire, you must be born again to enter the kingdom of God.
Congrats on getting footage that carefully avoids the issue that San Francisco has per capita one of the biggest problems of any developed city in the world, with open air illegal drug use, rampant crime, vandalism and street campers. Stop the cap.
It was certainly bad the last times I was there, but this video does not seem to show that, so either they kicked out the politicians or just cherry picked clips without the squalid conditions. I lived there from 1967 to 70 then moved to Sausalito and San Rafael until 2000 when I moved out of the country. For 130 years it was the most interesting city in the US.
She literally full stop did a shot of all the parts of Market street that have been bad for decades along with the other parts. Nothing was "carefully chosen".
@@ashm7922 yep San Francisco is doing just fine. Bipping is now back in popular slang, thanks to San Francisco. Your city is really famous. San Francisco residents are not people I believe, based on statements I hear from them, and observations of the scene there on many levels.
@@mikeg3439 You're actually mentally ill. I can't imagine being so obsessed with a city I don't even live in that I have to make a comment on a random TH-cam video claiming to know what life is like in a city more than its own residents based on a string of news media clips from the worst areas of town. It's actually bonkers, people like you exist. Probably take up tennis or golf to occupy your time ❤
Cleaned up the place. SF does this routinely, it fills up again in no time. This is older footage. Nordstrom still has banners out. They’ve since closed as well
Just spent four days in San Francisco and twice road the street cars from Fisherman's Wharf to the Castro District and the homeless situation was no worse than I had seen prior to Covid. Basically, just as you saw in this video, minimal. Saw one homeless person in Union Square. Yep, there were some on Powell Street. Didn't see any at Pier 39. Walked up Columbus Street for an Italian dinner with the wife from North Beach and only saw a few homeless. Ate outside at the Stinking Rose Resturant on Columbus and was never bothered by any homeless. Never saw any homeless encampments anywhere. Walked my dog all over Fort Masson area, no issues other than a coyote eyeballing dogs running free. Spent a good portion of the day at Golden Gate Park and never saw one homeless person. There most probably are issues in the Tenderloin district and other areas, but there always has been and most people have no reason to go to those areas. I've been traveling to San Francisco almost yearly for the past 25 years and really didn't see any significant changes other than a lot of the stores have shut down. A lot. Would I be comfortable walking around downtown at night? No. But during the daytime and in the more touristy areas, no concern at all. Every big city has it's problems and problem areas. But from what I saw and experienced; the crime, drug addicts, homelessness, etc., way overhyped and sensationalized. Looking forward to my next trip back to San Francisco.
***DISCLAIMER*** So I’m just going to let you all know exactly how manipulated this video is. The video starts with the cameraman getting out of the Civic Center BART Station and walking Northeast. This is conveniently the cutoff of where Market Street starts to get really bad. The direction he’s heading is towards all the main shopping and tourist areas in the Powell/Montgomery/Embarcadero areas, eventually leading to the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero. He sort of circles around several blocks yet they’re still all around that area with the office buildings and main downtown shopping and businesses that tourists frequent. Market Street is actually MUCH MUCH longer than these few blocks. If he had turned the camera around and started heading Southwest on Market Street, it would lead you to the Tenderloin area, which is where the infestation is. But, the fact that you can still see scattered homeless people in this video means things are REALLY bad, and that they’ve run out of room to the point that they have to start sleeping where the tourists and busy downtown areas are.
Indeed. All the SF fanbois in denial in these threads... SF has turned into a right sh*thole, and the remainers are so stuck in their normalcy bias they just refuse to see it. But whatever. If they stay there, there is less chance of them spreading that toxic Marxist bullsh*t to other untouched cities. Maybe they could make a speed train that stops only at places like Portland, Seattle, Detroit, Chicago, etc so "those who know" can shop back an forth between "the greatest cities in the world." Look up snapshots of Saturday afternoon c1990 or so. The difference is dramatic in quantity of people alone. But there is no convincing.
Why did you only go on market and not going near or into the tenderloin or market towards soma or van ness ? I’ve been here since 2008 and I’m leaving. I’ve seen too much here. You only covered the shopping area. Want me to film some stuff on market and I’m guessing you went early to mid afternoon? Half the stores are gone that’s why it’s clean. This false propaganda
I just watched your lovely walk thru The City in the rain, yesterday 1/12/24. Market was empty of any campers whatsoever, between about Powell and the Embarcadero.
How old is the Bart Footage ? First off not one person on a phone 🤳 , second the clothing is from the 90s , and lastly the last time I was on the Bart it did NOT look like this. So you're obviously splicing it up here. The cars and busses are from the 90s. Some areas are current. If only it was truly like this. Maybe early morning certain areas.
I take BART evert day. They got new trains, they are slowly replacing the old cars with the new ones. BART has really cleaned up, its actually nice now. I hadn't taken it for years, then started taking it for work and was shocked at how clean it is now, especially with the new train cars. Also BART PD is actually cracking down on the homeless inside the stations.
Me and my wife were on Bart last week and a homeless guy took a huge dump in Bart in front of us. My wife threw up several times as well as another person. It was the single most traumatic event in her life . She will never get on Bart again. The smell was horrific.
This is rather selective: notice that the author does not show the closed stores, and the door guards at the open ones. The issues are not just druggies and the homeless.
Watch more - I saw her vid of 1/12, and walking up Powell from the Cable Car turnaround, I did indeed see many empty storefronts, and there was plywood on the Walgreen's front. Union Square seemed as ever, with Saks, Macy's etc. around it and open. City Lights bookstore is still there.Starbucks everywhere. I imagine the Tenderloin is still the pit it always has been.
When I was back in SF in the spring, the Mission was a MESS! The Tenderloin was as bad as ever and it had spilled over into adjacent areas. Also parts of the city that used to be vibrant seemed eerily quiet and.. empty. So sad.
That's it for me. Since I was born and raised here and I've seen the cycles over decades now, it's definitely worse but doesn't seem that much worse. It's the emptiness since so many storefronts closed and 80,000 or so residents left the city that feels depressing
Lived in walnut creek east bay 1998 2008. Worked for the city of San Francisco for 10 years and commuted by bart. Left in 2008. This doesn't look that bad. Hoping in the future it comes back to life more. More people. Lively. Shopping. Life.🎉😊😊
It's true lots of Homeless near Bart station scattered around begging and shoplifting , I love San Francisco❤️ but I don't have any plan of going back there anymore, so risky for a tourist😒
Amazing videos The videos shown numbers of retail shop winded up. The homeless and drug addicts are not swept under the carpet, they must have been vacuumed. 😂😂😂😂
I was on holliday in SFO from UK a couple of months after 9/11, stayed at holiday inn on vanness Av, the homless situation looks a lot worse now, Alcatraz was interesting
Looks okay, needs some more foot traffic and stores to reopen and it will be better. Continuous street cleaning and police patrolling is a must. Some downtowns throughout the country are emptier and some are busier so SF is probably somewhere in between
Go to Tenderloin and its surrounding streets and go to 6th street and Willow Street in Van Ness and see for yourself. In Market street, go around the Civic Center where the fountain is located and see for yourself. Homelessness and shoplifitng goes together, look for the statistics for the no. of stores closing
An opinion is nothing special, everyone has one. This is her second term so obviously the majority of San Franciscans don't agree with you. You need to visit other cities then you'll appreciate SF more. I suggest you start with LA, then work your way east to Philly until NY. If that doesn't convince you, then leave SF for a city with a mayor that you like rather than sitting around complaining about ours. There is buses, trains and planes leaving SF every hour, plus there's always U-HAUL.
@@rickvalentine44All the cities you name are also demoRAT run cesspools. And yes, U-Haul is making a handsome profit from all the people fleeing said cesspools.
@@rickvalentine44 you said it I don’t care for our mayor but it is a beautiful city one of the most charming in the us with cool weather that’s heavenly
Just east of this video is Mission St. This starts a completely different world & continues through the Tenderloin district. Look it up if you want an accurate assessment of S.F.
Good video. Looks like they're definitely making a concerted effort to clean the place up. I'm going to take a tour of the tenderloin tonight and see how it looks…
It just only made me feel homesick for my Beautiful City by the Bay San Francisco, CA. I left there in 2001 and moved to Dallas, TX for 3 and a half years, then unto Albuquerque, NM. I miss my hometown so much, but realistically just can't afford to live there anymore. 😢. I didn't notice too much homelessness in your video. It's worse over here where I live in Albuquerque. Hopefully one day I'll be able to come visit again. Thanks for sharing.
I didn't see an infestation. Definition: the presence of an unusually large number of insects or animals in a place, typically so as to cause damage or disease.
Except for the few frozen, hunched over addicts, it's not as bad as people say it is on Market Street, at least in this video. The real bad areas are, and always had been, the streets just east off Powell, the Civic Crnter Plaza and stree5s parallelling Van Ness, going into the Tenderloin. If the City can attract businesses back on street level, the City can recover.
Basically, the Tenderloin is as bad as it aways was. Briefly during the pandemic, the city was not allowed to clear encampments so it started spilling over toward Market street and Union Square. Now they started removing the encampments and it's almost back to normal again. But the Tenderloin always was and always will be a messy area. It's been like that since the Gold Rush. Locals don't really go there.
There are some comments about Bayview & Visitacion Valley as more unsafe. Never been to Bayview nor Visitacion. Would love to walk and explore the place though
Yes looks like the traffic during Covid which is nice. Honestly Long Beach is much worse than this. They must be placing them tho bc lately there’s been way less tents.
@@jeannerogers7085 Went to school there starting in 1973. Would occasionally see Douglas and Malden during the filming of the show. Malden was a friend of my uncle and managed some of the property he (Malden) owned in the city. Where is the time machine.
I’m glad that more and more people are getting out of the house again. Things have never been the same since Rona. But yeah, there’s a big problem in most major cities. This video is for investors, not empaths.
The video is nothing like the last two times I visited San Francisco, when it was overrun by homeless, obviously drugged out, people, many passed out on the streets and the BART train cars had been taken over by homeless, where they tore up the sets to many beds and living in the cars. Maybe they cleaned it up but since moving out of the US in 2000 and returning to my home area only 5 times in those years, it was too sad to see what the most beautiful and interesting city in the US has deteriorated so much. It has been 3 years since that last visit. There must be new politicians on charge. But can it be saved or its reputation is just too damaged for retail stores to return.
Odd, but when we went to SF for a meeting, we had to step over poo, lots of needles laying around, and were occasionally accosted verbally by the aggressive homeless. The capper was the dead person on the beach when we went to look at the ocean.
I'm local. Also well traveled and have lived elsewhere including NYC. Especially working in SF for years, including as a young man in a delivery and service job, I've seen a lot of stuff. The problems aren't new, they have gotten worse but not as much as some say, and some days it's just random chance if you see something or don't, or dependent on the individual block. Some, especially around the tenderloin are bad most of the time, but no big deal during the day especially if you're a guy. All that said there certainly isn't an area in any of the main parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan etc that have the same concentration as the worst parts of SF
I wouldn’t make it my destination, but if you happen to be in the Bay Area, there are still fantastic spots in SF to visit. We recently had friends spend a whole day there and they loved it.
This sounds like faint praise but I just finished a quick one week road trip from Vancouver, Canada to SF. As bad as the tenderloin district is, there's many other big cities that have this problem right now, especially since the destruction caused by covid and the collateral damage its done. This still is an absolutely stunning city in many ways, it just has to get its shit together in dealing with the crime (theft) and rampant drug use. But having said, that it's still fascinating and beautiful.
Hmnn..sorry...live here for 33 yrs..but most parts of san Francisco are clean and very welcoming..too bad that some areas are filthy and drug infested we called tenderloin...but hopefully in the near future our officials will deal with it tough enough ...to get rid slowly of these nuisances...sorry...San Francisco is not your place to visit..but if u will , we have nice weather..fleet week is days away and visitors from different parts of bay area and other states will be here again..
I accidentally watched this video but I found it interesting. What is the reason for closing stores? After all, people have to buy things somewhere and the city center is naturally the best place. There are no stores in all of SF? I don't understand.
The high tech workers were allowed to work remotely and move out to other states in order to save rent money, so the business also move out of those buildings. Downtown was boarded out during all the pandemic and it’s not recuperating unless the business and corporations pays for the care of the homeless people.
In the 1990s, I worked near the Civic Center station at night. This video shows that not much has changed. Although it looks a little cleaner now. When you use the term "infested" you really show much more about you than the people on the street.
I see a fabulous city with fabulous people living, enjoying their best life. If you listen to YT videos you'd think all of America's cities are cesspool.
To be sure, SF has its problem areas. I have been watching many real estate videos lately, from every area. They all have street views, these and videos like 'Caliwalks' all show that takes of the cities deterioration are extremely exaggerated.
@@jeannerogers7085 Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that money reaches the people who need it most in the cities. Our homeless population is set to decrease substantially.
I have traveled a lot around the world and USA is the place where I have seen the most people with drugs addiction. In Europe we have drug addicts but not as bad. The situation in the USA is horrific 😢
Nah, you got it wrong. I'm saving my money to leave San Diego, I'm an old unskilled worker grew up in 16 foster homes now a recovering addict. Now I'm living in 'housing first ' building. Its all the paperwork for section 8, medi-cal etc. One slip-up and you don't sign that form in time, and you can lose it all. I'm 63 year's old and push shopping carts. Theres no health insurance for my job level at a UNION GROCERY store.
The fact that cities; not just SF, let people lay on the sidewalks with absolutely no intervention of any kind;(arrest, hospitalization, any sort of action by either authority or passerby, tells me the problem will get much worse much much much worse.
I live here normal for us,you guys must be living under a rock!Want to live where there is no snow and below zero.you put up with it,and step over the poop you get used to it.
The only reason I’m agreeing with this comment is because of the prices of goods. It’s hella expensive but other than that, it’s still an exciting experience to shop🛍️ at Union Square area. Just remember the number one rule when you travel anywhere - Have your wits about you.
Sanfrancisco survived a lot......fires, earthquakes,the depression. But the one thing it could not survive was the leftist policies that the Democrats thrust upon this once beautiful city.
I completely agree with your premise about what this video shows. That SF is not falling apart. Good video to prove things are fairly nornal considering we just got out of a pandemic that killed millions. BTW, the main reason the cities you list in your intro about being generally being more pristine has to do in large part because they are mono-cultural. When the vast majority of your residents have been raised in the same culture you have the same traditions and view on life so you build a society that conforns to those qualities. It's much more difficult to do in multicultural societies because they're more differences. Of course, the political and legal structures play a role as well.
@@caliwalks Yes and no. It depends where in the US you live. In some ways, certain areas of the US can also be much more monocultural too. However, living in a place like LA, which is one of the most diverse cities in the world, is fantastic and I wouldn't trade it for anywhere else even with it's problems because the city of angels has so many more positive facets than negative. Though it's heartening to see more midsize and even smaller cities becoming more diverse across the whole country even though that process is also resulting in a certain amount of chaos. In the end, it's worth it The more diverse your neighborhood is the less fear you have of the other and probably less anger too.
I just love how a bunch of trolls keep commenting under the video without watching it just to be all brokenhearted when the video turns out not to be anti-SF propaganda 😁😁😁😁
I visited quite a bit in the 90s. Back then it was still a very progressive city. Homeless but spread out other than around Market they were heavy at night. Progressive in the sense of acceptance towards people’s weirdness. This is the result 30 years later. Gotta draw the line at setting up shop in front of the shop. While dropping a ✌️
Ice Cream shop with security guard-hmmm. I’ve watched several hours of videos of San Francisco in the past month in anticipation of a possible trip (Ive been there 8 times in the last 20 years). In all those hours of watching, I’ve only seen one FedEx and one UPS truck, which were on this video. I’m not sure what day of the week this video was done, but the others I’ve watched were on weekdays, with none seen making deliveries in the business district.
Hiring of security guards is tricky specially in progressive cities when police and some forms of security are demonized. I was raised in a culture where we felt safe when there’s police presence for protection just in case. With what’s happening right now nationwide (looting, shoplifting, etc.) isn’t it wise to hire security? Of course this is not applicable to every situation. As for the UPS & Fed ex deliveries, maybe I’m just not understanding where you’re coming from but I don’t see the connection between the frequency of delivery vehicles with okay-ness of a city. FYI, market street has been a car-free zone for about 3 years now except for those who have special permits. Thanks for dropping by.
@@caliwalks I was surprised a security guard would be needed in an ice cream shop (as opposed to a department store where theft may occur). My observation about Courier vehicles (UPS, FEDEX) had to do with their presence being an indirect reflection about how much business was going on in the office buildings in downtown SF. Your video may have been done in a weekend, so maybe not many deliveries. Many of the other videos I’ve watched recently were done midday on weekdays, and I would have expected to see more courier activity in areas with many offices.
This makes me feel very sad. I’m from London uk and the last time I went to San Fran was 2002, there were homeless people even then - but they were the veteran homeless - the last of the flower power generation from tye 60s and 70s , they weren’t shooting up in the street in full view of everyone. And back then San Fran had GREAT stores for shopping - it’s down town area was on a par with London’s Oxford street and regent street - considering London is twice the size of even New York that was impressive for San Fran back then - looking at this I can see where the Irgun mega store used to be and ALL the other missing stores Oxford street in London is still buzzing -lots still packed - the lack of people in this video is REALLY unsettling The worst thing to happen to America was Amazon For the sake of mental health and American jobs and malls tye USA governmen should compulsory purchase Amazon to close it down and keep it closed and anything similar to it. Just because you can shop online doesn’t mean you should It’s destroying everything
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It was. Lunch time Mon-Fri used to be super busy. BART during commuter hours was a challenge to board the train. Videos like this are progressive-denialism lmao
" I especially love clean, safe and organized cities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Makati City & BGC in the Philippines, etc. What do they do to keep these cities safe and clean?" They keep the bums out. Next question.
Like it happened in a blink of an eye. i lived in ChinaTown (2021-2022) walked to work and businesses were good. Moved to Excelsior and i hear that Old Navy and everything else closed on Market. #RiP
I was a bicycle messenger in and around this area in 1982 and took BART to Daly City every evening. It looks the same as it did then, but like others pointed out if you were trying to document the "seedy underbelly" you should've walked east on Sixth from Market, or west on Turk, or Eddy or Ellis. I didn't see any Tenderloin overflow in your video, but it was certainly close at hand. That particular cluster of streets (Market & 6th/7th Sts, Powell cable car turnaround, Hyde St) has been sketchy for decades but it looked okay in your clip!
The title clearly says Market Street. I have multiple videos of the Tenderloin, Turk, Eddy, Powell etc. They’re all in this channel. Thanks for watching.
@@caliwalks The title also clearly says "Infested with homeless and drug addicts" yet none were shown. Now who walks serenely upon the face of Mt. Moral High Ground? ;)
Yeah market Street and the tenderloin in particular have always been thus. Things have gotten a bit worse just like any city in America and the world in general actually. Cost of living is going up and getting crazy all over the world and people are giving up. It's sad but I don't blame them. I'm about there myself.
The real SF isn't something you're probably interested in seeing. Most of SF consists of a bunch of victorian townhomes with coffee shops, cafes, and local bars. I think the SF you're interested in seeing is the minuscule 10 square blocks of the Tenderloin neighborhood that are filled with drug addicts and homeless people so you can laugh at them.
It looks like a nightmare to me but what do I know? I live in Missouri where it is illegal to camp on public land such as parks, sidewalks, parking lots, along freeways, etc.
How little we do for a homeless problem is a big indicator of how little we care as a nation. COVID made changes within business operations and real estate use all over the country. Working from home changed transportation needs, purchasing routines, and life routines completely. We will not return to exactly what we had because business found out that it didn’t need all the space. So empty buildings! Money and prices moving upward have changed the definition of “class”. Many cannot afford housing prices. NYC average is $5500 for an apartment. We are mostly just one tough time away from living on the street. Changes are needed now in the function of cities. Finland solved its homelessness. We can do the same but it will take cooperation and possibly less profits going to the wealthy.
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Thanks for this video. I lived in the Bay Area in the 1980s and exited BART at Civic Center every weekday. One aspect that is remarkably different now is the lack of small businesses along this walk. There used to be hundreds of small shops thriving and triple the amount of pedestrians. To my eyes, the place looks vacant now compared to then. San Francisco was amazing then…
All those small shops are out in the neighborhoods.
All you had to do was go a block or two over in either direction and you could have had a whole nother story but this isn't it
A block or two in either direction would change that dramatically?!? This looks like paradise usa
Literally any city in the USA has the same features. Get out and about a little more.
Don’t waste people time by saying something and then never addressing the issue 😢 33:37
Is that Macy’s still open or had it been robbed blind?
What blows my mind is that people in America want to see America failing. They want to believe it has completely fallen apart and their belief is right. They want to rub it in people's faces that the 'Left" way of governing is dangerous and will lead to the downfall of everything. I just would like to know when this fanatical way of black and white thinking really took over in America? It most likely started at 9/11 and slowly became normal for people to react that way. If you want to see your own country fail, you need to check your head, because something went bad in there a long time ago.
You walked from Civic Center to Montgomery and back to Powell. Go down Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Street. Walk around Civic Center, go down O'Farrell and Jones.
Wow I’m impressed!!!!!! You in the city?
Why don't you pan to the permanently closed retail? @@caliwalks
To keep the narrative alive, that somehow SF is doing ok. Where in reality the city is dying
The entire country is actually under a globalist occupation. Your President Joe Biden signed a Pandemic Treaty with the United Nations and the W.H.O. to give up our sovereignty during the "plandemic". Fact checkers will say I'm lying but you know damn well if you live in a Democrat controlled state leadership will be in lockstep with the WHO directives. @@richardalvarez2390
Looks like heavenly paradise?!? Where are the homeless !?! Am I missing something they made it seem like the homeless have taken over San Francisco CLEARLY NOT THE CASE!?!
As a local, I can tell you that the pedestrian traffic is only about 20% of what it was pre-pandemic, and about 50% of the shops and restaurants along Market are empty. Very depressing to go downtown, although if you go out into the neighborhoods west of Van Ness, things are very lively.
That's crazy. The pandemic might have changed people's habits for good in combination with our technology.
Agreed, SF native here who still lives in town.
I lived in SF for almost 40 years . left in dec 2021. This looks like a lifeless city now. Compare these scenes to the years previous to 2020 . This city was buzzing with activity and people at lunch time in downtown and south of market. There were people everywhere . Businesses and restaurants were full of customers. People moved about with some purpose in their step. What i see in this video is a sad looking city that will take a least a decade to get anywhere near what it was. My wife and i moved to THailand and were in Bangkok last week and there is absolutely no comparison . BKK was clean , no needles , no junkies passed out , no murals of dead drug dealers , very little graffiti. A city of 12 million. It was polite and civiilized. Everyone courteous and helpful. beautful temples and a stunning mall that was more like a palace. The Thai people can have nice things without fear that a pack of feral animals will destroy it. I loved SF but this makes me sad to see it so lifeless.
Good, stay in Thailand.
@@terpen7375 As he should
The elites wanted it to happen their collapsing America.
Do you want to tell me that Thailand is better than one of the main cities in the United States? I'm not american that's why i'm asking
@@jorgegl3306 Thailand is better than America and far better than San Francisco, open your eyes and pay attention to what's happening! Repent and believe the gospel of Jesus Christ or you will have your part in the lake of fire, you must be born again to enter the kingdom of God.
Congrats on getting footage that carefully avoids the issue that San Francisco has per capita one of the biggest problems of any developed city in the world, with open air illegal drug use, rampant crime, vandalism and street campers. Stop the cap.
It was certainly bad the last times I was there, but this video does not seem to show that, so either they kicked out the politicians or just cherry picked clips without the squalid conditions. I lived there from 1967 to 70 then moved to Sausalito and San Rafael until 2000 when I moved out of the country. For 130 years it was the most interesting city in the US.
She literally full stop did a shot of all the parts of Market street that have been bad for decades along with the other parts. Nothing was "carefully chosen".
@@ashm7922 yep San Francisco is doing just fine. Bipping is now back in popular slang, thanks to San Francisco. Your city is really famous.
San Francisco residents are not people I believe, based on statements I hear from them, and observations of the scene there on many levels.
@@mikeg3439 You're actually mentally ill. I can't imagine being so obsessed with a city I don't even live in that I have to make a comment on a random TH-cam video claiming to know what life is like in a city more than its own residents based on a string of news media clips from the worst areas of town. It's actually bonkers, people like you exist. Probably take up tennis or golf to occupy your time ❤
@@ashm7922 Leftists have a very troubling habit of gas lighting everyone they disagree with. You are a sad and bullying example of that. Do better.
Cleaned up the place. SF does this routinely, it fills up again in no time. This is older footage. Nordstrom still has banners out. They’ve since closed as well
Just spent four days in San Francisco and twice road the street cars from Fisherman's Wharf to the Castro District and the homeless situation was no worse than I had seen prior to Covid. Basically, just as you saw in this video, minimal. Saw one homeless person in Union Square. Yep, there were some on Powell Street. Didn't see any at Pier 39. Walked up Columbus Street for an Italian dinner with the wife from North Beach and only saw a few homeless. Ate outside at the Stinking Rose Resturant on Columbus and was never bothered by any homeless. Never saw any homeless encampments anywhere. Walked my dog all over Fort Masson area, no issues other than a coyote eyeballing dogs running free. Spent a good portion of the day at Golden Gate Park and never saw one homeless person. There most probably are issues in the Tenderloin district and other areas, but there always has been and most people have no reason to go to those areas. I've been traveling to San Francisco almost yearly for the past 25 years and really didn't see any significant changes other than a lot of the stores have shut down. A lot. Would I be comfortable walking around downtown at night? No. But during the daytime and in the more touristy areas, no concern at all. Every big city has it's problems and problem areas. But from what I saw and experienced; the crime, drug addicts, homelessness, etc., way overhyped and sensationalized. Looking forward to my next trip back to San Francisco.
So did you go in the direction of Polk or van ness or soma ?
@evamaggardhow much is monthly rent in Tenderloin?
Живу в России но такого срача ещё не видела в своей стране
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So I’m just going to let you all know exactly how manipulated this video is. The video starts with the cameraman getting out of the Civic Center BART Station and walking Northeast. This is conveniently the cutoff of where Market Street starts to get really bad. The direction he’s heading is towards all the main shopping and tourist areas in the Powell/Montgomery/Embarcadero areas, eventually leading to the Ferry Building on the Embarcadero. He sort of circles around several blocks yet they’re still all around that area with the office buildings and main downtown shopping and businesses that tourists frequent. Market Street is actually MUCH MUCH longer than these few blocks. If he had turned the camera around and started heading Southwest on Market Street, it would lead you to the Tenderloin area, which is where the infestation is. But, the fact that you can still see scattered homeless people in this video means things are REALLY bad, and that they’ve run out of room to the point that they have to start sleeping where the tourists and busy downtown areas are.
@Michael-ik4bo That it's easy to make it look like there's not much wrong on video? 🤡
Wow it's deserted. I've never seen it so barren!
Indeed. All the SF fanbois in denial in these threads... SF has turned into a right sh*thole, and the remainers are so stuck in their normalcy bias they just refuse to see it.
But whatever. If they stay there, there is less chance of them spreading that toxic Marxist bullsh*t to other untouched cities. Maybe they could make a speed train that stops only at places like Portland, Seattle, Detroit, Chicago, etc so "those who know" can shop back an forth between "the greatest cities in the world."
Look up snapshots of Saturday afternoon c1990 or so. The difference is dramatic in quantity of people alone.
But there is no convincing.
*The results of pricing the unwanted out of housing and somehow thinking they'll vanish, and still work for $7.25/hr.*
Truth
Why did you only go on market and not going near or into the tenderloin or market towards soma or van ness ? I’ve been here since 2008 and I’m leaving. I’ve seen too much here. You only covered the shopping area. Want me to film some stuff on market and I’m guessing you went early to mid afternoon? Half the stores are gone that’s why it’s clean. This false propaganda
I just watched your lovely walk thru The City in the rain, yesterday 1/12/24. Market was empty of any campers whatsoever, between about Powell and the Embarcadero.
I felt like I was there courtesy of your video. Minus the negative issues.
What camera and mic are you using. Is it hidden so people don't freak out?
I will say your camera work is pretty good
How old is the Bart Footage ? First off not one person on a phone 🤳 , second the clothing is from the 90s , and lastly the last time I was on the Bart it did NOT look like this. So you're obviously splicing it up here. The cars and busses are from the 90s. Some areas are current. If only it was truly like this. Maybe early morning certain areas.
I take BART evert day. They got new trains, they are slowly replacing the old cars with the new ones. BART has really cleaned up, its actually nice now. I hadn't taken it for years, then started taking it for work and was shocked at how clean it is now, especially with the new train cars. Also BART PD is actually cracking down on the homeless inside the stations.
Me and my wife were on Bart last week and a homeless guy took a huge dump in Bart in front of us. My wife threw up several times as well as another person. It was the single most traumatic event in her life . She will never get on Bart again. The smell was horrific.
When you gotta go, you gotta go. Condolences to your wife and the other unfortunate. Not sure how that fit into God’s plan
There is no god obviously.
@@anthonyaguilar8883 not within distance of all the hell being raised around this really screwed up planet
I love that story.I'm certain that it fits into God's plan.🙏🏼
This is rather selective: notice that the author does not show the closed stores, and the door guards at the open ones. The issues are not just druggies and the homeless.
Watch more - I saw her vid of 1/12, and walking up Powell from the Cable Car turnaround, I did indeed see many empty storefronts, and there was plywood on the Walgreen's front. Union Square seemed as ever, with Saks, Macy's etc. around it and open. City Lights bookstore is still there.Starbucks everywhere. I imagine the Tenderloin is still the pit it always has been.
When I was back in SF in the spring, the Mission was a MESS! The Tenderloin was as bad as ever and it had spilled over into adjacent areas. Also parts of the city that used to be vibrant seemed eerily quiet and.. empty. So sad.
All the result of liberal leadership
That's it for me. Since I was born and raised here and I've seen the cycles over decades now, it's definitely worse but doesn't seem that much worse. It's the emptiness since so many storefronts closed and 80,000 or so residents left the city that feels depressing
Lived in walnut creek east bay 1998 2008. Worked for the city of San Francisco for 10 years and commuted by bart. Left in 2008. This doesn't look that bad. Hoping in the future it comes back to life more. More people. Lively. Shopping. Life.🎉😊😊
They better clean up the crime. Or hey how about cleaning up all the human feces first?
It's true lots of Homeless near Bart station scattered around begging and shoplifting , I love San Francisco❤️ but I don't have any plan of going back there anymore, so risky for a tourist😒
One of the better walking videos I have seen in terms of picture quality. What camera do you use? And please keep them coming!
Awww, thanks much! Appreciate it. Subscribe for more vids!
Looks like absolute paradise? Not a single hint of urban squalor
Excelent picture, what a good camera!
Liked this vid.
Amazing videos
The videos shown numbers of retail shop winded up.
The homeless and drug addicts are not swept under the carpet, they must have been vacuumed. 😂😂😂😂
I was on holliday in SFO from UK a couple of months after 9/11, stayed at holiday inn on vanness Av, the homless situation looks a lot worse now, Alcatraz was interesting
Cool, finally i could watch the street views other than New York.
Try the expensive London neighbourhood ones - they’ll make you feel SICK 😂
38:36 Looks👀 like some visitors get "Lucky" 🤣🤣🤣
Looks okay, needs some more foot traffic and stores to reopen and it will be better. Continuous street cleaning and police patrolling is a must. Some downtowns throughout the country are emptier and some are busier so SF is probably somewhere in between
Lmaooooo oh man the delusion
Hilarious. The stores are gone forever. Voting has consequences.
Literally beautiful NOTHING ABOUT IT SEEMS EVEN REMOTELY HOMELESS OR RUN DOWN!?! Nothing!!!
Go to Tenderloin and its surrounding streets and go to 6th street and Willow Street in Van Ness and see for yourself. In Market street, go around the Civic Center where the fountain is located and see for yourself. Homelessness and shoplifitng goes together, look for the statistics for the no. of stores closing
Groucho Marx mentioned that beef tenderloin is in the Tenderloin district.
Go to 7th St in Austin,your stepping over them!
Thank you for the tour. Awesome ✌️
If you knew who the mayor is you would understand why this is happening!!😖😖
She's the true definition of WTF!
An opinion is nothing special, everyone has one. This is her second term so obviously the majority of San Franciscans don't agree with you. You need to visit other cities then you'll appreciate SF more. I suggest you start with LA, then work your way east to Philly until NY. If that doesn't convince you, then leave SF for a city with a mayor that you like rather than sitting around complaining about ours. There is buses, trains and planes leaving SF every hour, plus there's always U-HAUL.
@@rickvalentine44All the cities you name are also demoRAT run cesspools. And yes, U-Haul is making a handsome profit from all the people fleeing said cesspools.
@@rickvalentine44 you said it I don’t care for our mayor but it is a beautiful city one of the most charming in the us with cool weather that’s heavenly
An opinion is nothing special, everyone has one.@@rickvalentine44
Why what’s happening?!? Have you watched the video (^im assuming not) this looks like a futuristic picture perfect sim utopia
Just east of this video is Mission St. This starts a completely different world & continues through the Tenderloin district. Look it up if you want an accurate assessment of S.F.
Good video. Looks like they're definitely making a concerted effort to clean the place up. I'm going to take a tour of the tenderloin tonight and see how it looks…
Cool! Please let us know how it went!
good luck
It just only made me feel homesick for my Beautiful City by the Bay San Francisco, CA. I left there in 2001 and moved to Dallas, TX for 3 and a half years, then unto Albuquerque, NM. I miss my hometown so much, but realistically just can't afford to live there anymore. 😢. I didn't notice too much homelessness in your video. It's worse over here where I live in Albuquerque. Hopefully one day I'll be able to come visit again. Thanks for sharing.
You mean there's homeless in New Mexico and Texas too?? 🤣
whats the gear? gimbal on chest?
I didn't see an infestation. Definition: the presence of an unusually large number of insects or animals in a place, typically so as to cause damage or disease.
Looks like a futuristic urban paradise landscape cityscape to me!?! 🤷♂️
Except for the few frozen, hunched over addicts, it's not as bad as people say it is on Market Street, at least in this video. The real bad areas are, and always had been, the streets just east off Powell, the Civic Crnter Plaza and stree5s parallelling Van Ness, going into the Tenderloin.
If the City can attract businesses back on street level, the City can recover.
Basically, the Tenderloin is as bad as it aways was. Briefly during the pandemic, the city was not allowed to clear encampments so it started spilling over toward Market street and Union Square. Now they started removing the encampments and it's almost back to normal again.
But the Tenderloin always was and always will be a messy area. It's been like that since the Gold Rush. Locals don't really go there.
It’s not just the TL. It’s also the Mission District now, which was never like it is now.
There are some comments about Bayview & Visitacion Valley as more unsafe. Never been to Bayview nor Visitacion. Would love to walk and explore the place though
Yes looks like the traffic during Covid which is nice. Honestly Long Beach is much worse than this. They must be placing them tho bc lately there’s been way less tents.
Enjoy your vote 😅
What's with the crocked trees?
Going off subject. What ever happened with Papa Paulie Pelosi's Hammer Time case? That one disappeared fast
WELCOME TO THE CITY BY THE BAY SAN FRANCISCO,CALIFORNIA where homeless and drug addicts can do their drugs openly free without going straight to jail
When Michael Douglas (Kirk Douglas son) was young he was the star of a TV cop show called "The Streets Of San Francisco"
I loved that show. We lived in The City at that time, and I always hoped to run into them filming. It is sooo nostalgic to watch it now.
@@jeannerogers7085 Went to school there starting in 1973. Would occasionally see Douglas and Malden during the filming of the show. Malden was a friend of my uncle and managed some of the property he (Malden) owned in the city. Where is the time machine.
@JamesSmith-gn9ou I don't where it is either.
Thanks for showing the truth
I’m glad that more and more people are getting out of the house again. Things have never been the same since Rona. But yeah, there’s a big problem in most major cities. This video is for investors, not empaths.
U GET WHAT U VOTE 4 !!!!!
The video is nothing like the last two times I visited San Francisco, when it was overrun by homeless, obviously drugged out, people, many passed out on the streets and the BART train cars had been taken over by homeless, where they tore up the sets to many beds and living in the cars. Maybe they cleaned it up but since moving out of the US in 2000 and returning to my home area only 5 times in those years, it was too sad to see what the most beautiful and interesting city in the US has deteriorated so much. It has been 3 years since that last visit. There must be new politicians on charge. But can it be saved or its reputation is just too damaged for retail stores to return.
Where did you move?
Or you’re a liar and so is everyone Elsa
So many people walking around in the fresh air wearing face masks ?
Odd, but when we went to SF for a meeting, we had to step over poo, lots of needles laying around, and were occasionally accosted verbally by the aggressive homeless. The capper was the dead person on the beach when we went to look at the ocean.
I'm local. Also well traveled and have lived elsewhere including NYC. Especially working in SF for years, including as a young man in a delivery and service job, I've seen a lot of stuff. The problems aren't new, they have gotten worse but not as much as some say, and some days it's just random chance if you see something or don't, or dependent on the individual block. Some, especially around the tenderloin are bad most of the time, but no big deal during the day especially if you're a guy. All that said there certainly isn't an area in any of the main parts of Brooklyn, Manhattan etc that have the same concentration as the worst parts of SF
Gavin Assoles paradise.
Thanks for these videos. They help to cement my decision to never visit SF.
You won't be missed.
I wouldn’t make it my destination, but if you happen to be in the Bay Area, there are still fantastic spots in SF to visit. We recently had friends spend a whole day there and they loved it.
This sounds like faint praise but I just finished a quick one week road trip from Vancouver, Canada to SF. As bad as the tenderloin district is, there's many other big cities that have this problem right now, especially since the destruction caused by covid and the collateral damage its done. This still is an absolutely stunning city in many ways, it just has to get its shit together in dealing with the crime (theft) and rampant drug use. But having said, that it's still fascinating and beautiful.
Hmnn..sorry...live here for 33 yrs..but most parts of san Francisco are clean and very welcoming..too bad that some areas are filthy and drug infested we called tenderloin...but hopefully in the near future our officials will deal with it tough enough ...to get rid slowly of these nuisances...sorry...San Francisco is not your place to visit..but if u will , we have nice weather..fleet week is days away and visitors from different parts of bay area and other states will be here again..
@@johnnydumandal3192 "There comes a time in a man's life when you have to grab the bull by the tail and face the situation." W.C. Fields
I accidentally watched this video but I found it interesting. What is the reason for closing stores? After all, people have to buy things somewhere and the city center is naturally the best place. There are no stores in all of SF? I don't understand.
Covid
The high tech workers were allowed to work remotely and move out to other states in order to save rent money, so the business also move out of those buildings. Downtown was boarded out during all the pandemic and it’s not recuperating unless the business and corporations pays for the care of the homeless people.
They'll all say covid and while that might be partially true it's mostly because of liberal policies that all but make shoplifting legal.
Yes, it's terrible here. Please don't come!
In the 1990s, I worked near the Civic Center station at night. This video shows that not much has changed. Although it looks a little cleaner now. When you use the term "infested" you really show much more about you than the people on the street.
The content creator is a Goebbels wannabe.
I see a fabulous city with fabulous people living, enjoying their best life. If you listen to YT videos you'd think all of America's cities are cesspool.
Not all American cities are cesspools just the ones run by democrats
To be sure, SF has its problem areas. I have been watching many real estate videos lately, from every area. They all have street views, these and videos like 'Caliwalks' all show that takes of the cities deterioration are extremely exaggerated.
@@jeannerogers7085 Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that money reaches the people who need it most in the cities. Our homeless population is set to decrease substantially.
I have traveled a lot around the world and USA is the place where I have seen the most people with drugs addiction. In Europe we have drug addicts but not as bad. The situation in the USA is horrific 😢
Nah, you got it wrong. I'm saving my money to leave San Diego, I'm an old unskilled worker grew up in 16 foster homes now a recovering addict. Now I'm living in 'housing first ' building. Its all the paperwork for section 8, medi-cal etc. One slip-up and you don't sign that form in time, and you can lose it all. I'm 63 year's old and push shopping carts. Theres no health insurance for my job level at a UNION GROCERY store.
The fact that cities; not just SF, let people lay on the sidewalks with absolutely no intervention of any kind;(arrest, hospitalization, any sort of action by either authority or passerby, tells me the problem will get much worse much much much worse.
I live here normal for us,you guys must be living under a rock!Want to live where there is no snow and below zero.you put up with it,and step over the poop you get used to it.
I didn’t see any homeless?? Guess it’s getting better ❤️🩹 Time to go back home 🏠 😊
I remember when marked street was a great place to shop, now its a no go zone. 🤢
Not true
When was that, 1842? I lived there 29 yrs ago and it was about the same.
The only reason I’m agreeing with this comment is because of the prices of goods. It’s hella expensive but other than that, it’s still an exciting experience to shop🛍️ at Union Square area. Just remember the number one rule when you travel anywhere - Have your wits about you.
I mean Market St was full of stores in 2019, 70% of them are closed now
Daniel, though it’s true; it’s not only an SF thing. Other big cities have this problem too
If you want them to go away, don’t give them any food or money.
There are NONE!!! This video is PROOF!!!
Wow. They sure cleaned up Market Street since the last time I was down there.
Sanfrancisco survived a lot......fires, earthquakes,the depression. But the one thing it could not survive was the leftist policies that the Democrats thrust upon this once beautiful city.
I completely agree with your premise about what this video shows. That SF is not falling apart. Good video to prove things are fairly nornal considering we just got out of a pandemic that killed millions.
BTW, the main reason the cities you list in your intro about being generally being more pristine has to do in large part because they are mono-cultural. When the vast majority of your residents have been raised in the same culture you have the same traditions and view on life so you build a society that conforns to those qualities. It's much more difficult to do in multicultural societies because they're more differences. Of course, the political and legal structures play a role as well.
Thank you for this comment. There are pros and cons living in monoculture societies too. Overall, do you think US is still the best country to live?
@@caliwalks Yes and no. It depends where in the US you live. In some ways, certain areas of the US can also be much more monocultural too.
However, living in a place like LA, which is one of the most diverse cities in the world, is fantastic and I wouldn't trade it for anywhere else even with it's problems because the city of angels has so many more positive facets than negative.
Though it's heartening to see more midsize and even smaller cities becoming more diverse across the whole country even though that process is also resulting in a certain amount of chaos. In the end, it's worth it
The more diverse your neighborhood is the less fear you have of the other and probably less anger too.
Yeah, I don’t think San Francisco is truly falling apart. There are problems that have to be solved though. Mostly with regards to Tenderloin.
Thank you, I felt like I was back home again . Looks the same to me before I left in 2018. Super duper had the best spiked shakes lol.
Thanks Newsome
I AGREE
I ALSO LIVE IN SF, IT NEEDS SOME W0RK BUT OVERALL ITS GOOD
I just love how a bunch of trolls keep commenting under the video without watching it just to be all brokenhearted when the video turns out not to be anti-SF propaganda 😁😁😁😁
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It would have been simpler and less expensive to have never allowed SF to fall into disrepair in the first place.
I visited quite a bit in the 90s. Back then it was still a very progressive city. Homeless but spread out other than around Market they were heavy at night. Progressive in the sense of acceptance towards people’s weirdness. This is the result 30 years later. Gotta draw the line at setting up shop in front of the shop. While dropping a ✌️
What disrepair?!? The video shows it’s thriving 1,000%
@@nickytommymancinelli8066 This is what thriving looks like? 😂
The sidewalk travvix is a fraction of what it used to be. It is spooky.
Ice Cream shop with security guard-hmmm. I’ve watched several hours of videos of San Francisco in the past month in anticipation of a possible trip (Ive been there 8 times in the last 20 years). In all those hours of watching, I’ve only seen one FedEx and one UPS truck, which were on this video. I’m not sure what day of the week this video was done, but the others I’ve watched were on weekdays, with none seen making deliveries in the business district.
Hiring of security guards is tricky specially in progressive cities when police and some forms of security are demonized. I was raised in a culture where we felt safe when there’s police presence for protection just in case. With what’s happening right now nationwide (looting, shoplifting, etc.) isn’t it wise to hire security? Of course this is not applicable to every situation. As for the UPS & Fed ex deliveries, maybe I’m just not understanding where you’re coming from but I don’t see the connection between the frequency of delivery vehicles with okay-ness of a city. FYI, market street has been a car-free zone for about 3 years now except for those who have special permits. Thanks for dropping by.
@@caliwalks I was surprised a security guard would be needed in an ice cream shop (as opposed to a department store where theft may occur).
My observation about Courier vehicles (UPS, FEDEX) had to do with their presence being an indirect reflection about how much business was going on in the office buildings in downtown SF. Your video may have been done in a weekend, so maybe not many deliveries. Many of the other videos I’ve watched recently were done midday on weekdays, and I would have expected to see more courier activity in areas with many offices.
This makes me feel very sad.
I’m from London uk and the last time I went to San Fran was 2002, there were homeless people even then - but they were the veteran homeless - the last of the flower power generation from tye 60s and 70s , they weren’t shooting up in the street in full view of everyone.
And back then San Fran had GREAT stores for shopping - it’s down town area was on a par with London’s Oxford street and regent street - considering London is twice the size of even New York that was impressive for San Fran back then - looking at this I can see where the Irgun mega store used to be and ALL the other missing stores
Oxford street in London is still buzzing -lots still packed - the lack of people in this video is REALLY unsettling
The worst thing to happen to America was Amazon
For the sake of mental health and American jobs and malls tye USA governmen should compulsory purchase Amazon to close it down and keep it closed and anything similar to it.
Just because you can shop online doesn’t mean you should
It’s destroying everything
There’s literally NOTHING SAD ABOUT IT?!? Did you watch the video!?!
Looks clean for the most part
13.50. I admire that man setting up his wares and making a honest living.
.Sure. "Chosen Jews"..Irish. Slavic. Scandinavians that Lead "Black".Niger. Congo. Nigerians. Brown Hindus.Latinos. Arabs. Yellow Husatan..ethnic Mongol. Chinese. Japanese.
..How come you "White and Black" never say your ethnicities? Above names are Yours.
Its way busier than that every moment and it is never that clean for more than a block or 2 at a time!
It was. Lunch time Mon-Fri used to be super busy. BART during commuter hours was a challenge to board the train. Videos like this are progressive-denialism lmao
Why are there so many stores closed?
Shoplifting.
Liberal policies that are soft on crime.
From what I'm seeing this video it looks pretty clean to me
This is literally the most picture perfect paradise like utopia downtown I’ve ever seen!!!??? Ever!!!
Does everyone in SF carry a backpack?
I do to carry my booze and my pot and stuff.
Yeth.
Comes in handy for shoplifting.
This video didn't show homeless & drug addicts as titled.
@Michael-ik4bo Lol
It ain't nothing like Kensington.
Not the way I remember it! It was always busy and entertaining! Doesn't seem fun to me😢😢
Empty sidewalks, empty buses, empty buildings. I think my small city has 5 times the people and auto traffic has SF.
Looks beautiful to me
That's what they want you to think.
" I especially love clean, safe and organized cities such as Tokyo, Seoul, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Makati City & BGC in the Philippines, etc. What do they do to keep these cities safe and clean?" They keep the bums out. Next question.
Like it happened in a blink of an eye. i lived in ChinaTown (2021-2022) walked to work and businesses were good. Moved to Excelsior and i hear that Old Navy and everything else closed on Market. #RiP
Finally good music
You should have walked the opposite way by Tenderloin.
I can tell some people didnt watch the video...
If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
Looks clean to me. What are you talking about?
Basically almost every store-front is closed.
Due to shoplifting...
maybe you should walk to the tenderloin
I was a bicycle messenger in and around this area in 1982 and took BART to Daly City every evening. It looks the same as it did then, but like others pointed out if you were trying to document the "seedy underbelly" you should've walked east on Sixth from Market, or west on Turk, or Eddy or Ellis. I didn't see any Tenderloin overflow in your video, but it was certainly close at hand. That particular cluster of streets (Market & 6th/7th Sts, Powell cable car turnaround, Hyde St) has been sketchy for decades but it looked okay in your clip!
The title clearly says Market Street. I have multiple videos of the Tenderloin, Turk, Eddy, Powell etc. They’re all in this channel. Thanks for watching.
@@caliwalks The title also clearly says "Infested with homeless and drug addicts" yet none were shown. Now who walks serenely upon the face of Mt. Moral High Ground? ;)
You know sarcasm? Also read what’s on the description box. I’m not your enemy. Thank you.
Homeless and drug addicts is a crime now in many well-to-do countries, so San Francisco is no exception.
Yeah market Street and the tenderloin in particular have always been thus. Things have gotten a bit worse just like any city in America and the world in general actually. Cost of living is going up and getting crazy all over the world and people are giving up. It's sad but I don't blame them. I'm about there myself.
Funny thing is that all the mess where are in right now are completely avoidable. It’s the policy makers.
@@caliwalks yep policy makers are in the Pocket of money makers, of course. Gotta love post capitalism. Your uncle is getting rich yeah.
Just the filthy democratic run cities are like this. Keep on dreaming.
@@mamasan7902yeah a little bit . It’s always been like this
Look to Moscov,silent,clean and no homeless..
Great perceptive video now show The Real San Francisco ...... thanks
Is this the fake San Francisco?!?
The real SF isn't something you're probably interested in seeing. Most of SF consists of a bunch of victorian townhomes with coffee shops, cafes, and local bars. I think the SF you're interested in seeing is the minuscule 10 square blocks of the Tenderloin neighborhood that are filled with drug addicts and homeless people so you can laugh at them.
Video speaks for itself
It just looks empty. Doesn’t look like a lively or busy city at all compared to other cities.
It looks like a nightmare to me but what do I know? I live in Missouri where it is illegal to camp on public land such as parks, sidewalks, parking lots, along freeways, etc.
Lol, which part is the "nightmare" part?
A nightmare?!? I’m in paradise at Naples fl #1 city in America 2023 & THIS LOOKS NICER!?!
How little we do for a homeless problem is a big indicator of how little we care as a nation. COVID made changes within business operations and real estate use all over the country. Working from home changed transportation needs, purchasing routines, and life routines completely. We will not return to exactly what we had because business found out that it didn’t need all the space. So empty buildings! Money and prices moving upward have changed the definition of “class”. Many cannot afford housing prices. NYC average is $5500 for an apartment. We are mostly just one tough time away from living on the street. Changes are needed now in the function of cities. Finland solved its homelessness. We can do the same but it will take cooperation and possibly less profits going to the wealthy.