San Francisco: Wasteland or Wonderland?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
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Date of adventure: 7/7/24
The news is saying San Francisco has become a real sh*thole....so I go investigate for myself, to see if it's true.
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Nothing in your car and leave it unlocked so the window doesn’t get broken
better idea, don't go there in the first place.
Does not work. I know from experience, that burglars are not that smart. They will punch the lock on an unlocked door and pry open an unlocked glove box.
Isn't that common sense across the United States?.
looked like 10% of the people who were there 7 years ago.
@@FredNorton-gi4qh why, because you fell for the republican lies? 🤣🤣🤣
The coldest Winter I ever spent was a Summer in San Francisco. - Mark Twain
I have lived in SF for many decades, in the last five years, property crime has increased. I get my Vespa rear view mirrors stolen so often, I don't replace them and this is a safety risk when i ride my Vespa. Also, i used to be able to keep my bike rack on my truck but multiple thefts, makes it so I have to put on my bike rack each time I want to transport my bike. This is all very annoying, but at least I don't have a long commute to work, so I stay here. But property crime makes SF more difficult to live in, period. And I live in an upscale neighborhood.
Stay out of Oakland. Free advice.
Croakland.
Yeah like see you "Raider"...woops they moved
Jen Angel, beloved Oakland bakery owner and social justice community activist approves this message..
Many parts of Oakland. My uncle has a house in the Oakland hills amongst the multi-million dollar mansions above the Fairmont.
Oakland Chinatown rocks. Best Dim Sum.
The cybertruck looks like a dustbuster on wheels.
I'm wondering why the door was dented?
Looks like something out of a 1970s low budget sci-fi movie.
The cybertruck looks like the stainless steel urinals on the beach in San Diego.
It basically is.
@@wmtrader Logan's Run (Exactly)
I would hope that staying in a small house worth well over $1,000,000 isn't that horrible of an experience. Many businesses have abandoned SF, and goods are behind lock and key because they are stolen otherwise.
Almost every house in San Francisco is worth more than $1,000,000.
@@tomtaber1102
“One Million Dollars!”
$1,000,000 ? I'll take two. SF was ripe for businesses to leave because of high rent. All real estate has cycles.
My funniest memory of San Francisco was back in 1986. I was 5 years old and my family (from near San Diego) and relatives (from Redding) all decided to meet up there that summer. Just a few days before, I had my very first taste of nachos and loved them. So while in San Francisco, we decided to have dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown. Being 5 years old, not realizing, I asked the waiter for some nachos 😆
I like SjF
But after about 1 day, I can't wait to get back to Nevada.
I was born and raised in San Francisco. I had a friend whose family owned a restaurant in Chinatown. I met him in junior high. We hadn't been friends long when he invited me to his birthday dinner at the restaurant. It was big with a bunch of relatives. They were all of Chinese ancestery and treated me like family. After dinner they all got quiet when they brought me out my fortune cookie. I opened it and it read "That wasn't chicken." A giant laugh went up when they all saw the look on my face. They went to the fortune cookie factory and had that cookie specially made up to give to me. That's the San Francisco I remember.
Next time ask if they have Carne Asada Fries,,,
@@LuckyBaldwin777 I, too, was born/raised in SF. Lived out in the Mission District, near Mission/Valencia till I was 9, (1959) at which time, we moved to San Diego. From Sarah's tour of SF, I tend to agree with her on the notion that the claim that SF is a cesspool is mostly hype. I now live in Las Vegas, left San Diego in 1996, but before that, we used to make a trip to SF every few years. Now when I hear Tony Bennetts "I left my heart in SF" I get a lump in my throat.
@lvsluggo007 my grandmother used to say "the sun always shines on the mission." She explained the city's best weather was in the fall because that was God's way of thanking San Franciscans for putting up with the tourists all summer. Tony Bennet's tune gets me too. Especially the line "where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars."
I am a transplanted Californian, have lived in Nevada for 23 years. California is the state that people love to hate and they especially love to hate San Francisco.
They're jealous!
@@bjorn2run jealous of commifornia? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha put down that crack pipe blue
Hope you didn't bring your politics here. I ve been in Nevada since 85 and californians and other out of staters have screwed it up. Increased prices, traffic and a now mostly democratic legislature...
I went there several times in the 80's when I was in the navy. We would tie up at the wharf and be very close to all the tourist activity. In fact, we would be part of it. Our ship would give tours to tourist while we were there. The city was beautiful, bustling with people from all over the world and at night it was a sailors dream. There was the under belly if you will, but there was a great night life for everyone else and if you didn't mind spending all your money, you could have a blast!
Well done. Your thoughtfulness and objectivity shined. Cable cars and self-driving Jags, go figure.
that wasn't much of a Jaguar.
Sarah...the places your showing as being crowded....
Years ago you could not ever walk ...too crowded...
Born in marin...I won't even go to the city anymore...
Love you and your channel
Jeepsy was just posting SF.
And the Golden Gate Bridge...
Every city has homeless. The problem is when the city announced they are a sanctuary city. And announcing “don’t call the police for theft and robbery
Yeah, go to Portland and walk around the worlds largest open air mental facility! 😄
Every city has them.. But the conservative type of people are always offended at looking at them and criminalizing them. If you look at the clickbaits and whos its geared towards.. its always those caucasian conservatives types, where they drum up easy $$$ clicks, as its easy to "scare" them with minorities/homeless; its easy to tell by peoples "comments", on how fragile they are. People forget this is "corporate" conservative america, where the rich profits and enjoy the good life.. While other few* actual "real" liberal countries, they have no homeless or drug addicts and are very strict against immigration, and less "religious rates, due to high education standards.
worked in the city for 30 years...I can show you the shit holes.two blocks away from downtown...
I believe u cause every city i have lived in has a shit hole 😅 Texas has its share. BUT Nothing as Beautiful as S.F. .❤
I worked up there thirty years ago. There have ALWAYS been shitholes.
Every city has its shit holes, I could see where you live, might have its shit hole of its own.
@@biscuitstosoakupthegravy8952 life without a shit hole, just wouldn't be living.
I totally agree not hard to look up...on the internet
I remember being down at fisherman's wharf as a kid and seeing the original Herby the Love Bug.
This was such a fun video! Your reaction to the Waymo's was hilarious. The first time I was sitting at a stop light, looked over and saw a car in the lane next to me with no driver, I was like WTF?! They have always creeped me out too! You are super fun to watch, I look forward to your next video!
After living in Vegas for 15 years, nothing fazes me anymore!
😂 yeah and then after you move to a 114-134 degree location, your tolerance perspective I would think changes even more.
I'll "BET"😂
This reminds me of when I used to live in Oakland. I miss it so much, I used to go to SF all the time 💔 my two cents on the safety of the Bay area? I moved out there completely by myself at 18. I lived on a college campus for a little over a year, then I moved into an apartment with an engaged couple who worked across the bridge and were never home and needed someone to watch their dog (we had opposite schedules). I was completely safe when I lived in Oakland, way safer than before I moved. I came from rural Ohio and NC, where the crime rate was supposedly low but unspeakable horrors happened to me constantly. In Oakland, I finally received help and safety. (And before anyone tries to claim that I had a different/privileged experience or thinks I was living off rich family, I lived below the poverty line for the first 18 years of my life and funded my move by getting a full ride scholarship by staying at the top of my class despite what I was surviving)
I live in rural America. It is not safe. There are people in them woods that are not in their right mind and will shoot you if they see you. In their minds you are a claim jumper or the Revenue agent come too take their moonshine or pot. It is safer in a city around decent folks but the dive bars in small towns also are not safe because of the town Bullies hang out there and like too sucker punch unsuspecting men and think they are tuff because they blasted a guy with a sucker punch from behind and then beat the crap out of them makes them fell tuff. Of course nobody saw nothing. Even though there was ten people there when it happened. They all cousins and business partners.
You seem more realistic and honest … and I don’t think anyone can get the realistic picture in a day or two, especially when it involves public policy….
We were smashed and grabbed like 30 years ago in the San Diego Zoo. So what's new?
Thank you for taking along your tour of San Francisco! It was nice a nice to have you as a tour guide leading us on a tour of the city. It does reminds me that I have to visit the city soon. The weather looks great and it must have been fun! Looking forward to the next veg! Stay safe and smiling! 😀
Excellent video WH. I've hung out in San Francisco many time and have always enjoyed myself. 1 of my more favorite cities to visit
Good job WH. I am dropping my usual response on line in reference to SF. It certainly didn't look any worse than any other major city in the U.S. Safe travels.
Actually, I took a trip to Seattle in 2018, and I saw FAR more tents on the sidewalks and just plain homeless than I saw in Sarah's tour. Unlike SF, Seattle gets downright COLD in the winter, and I wonder what the homeless in tents do then? Freeze to death?
I lived in SF for 30 years and everything looks pretty “normal” to me! I’ve been away for 10yrs. Thanks for the update and sharing a great cross-section of many neighborhoods👍🏻🙂
Gold was actually discovered in 1848. The people that were already here were able to pick gold up by hand on the suface
and the mexicans and Chileans knew what was what and rushed up there for the FIRST year then were all run out by racist laws the next year.
I moved to San Francisco in 1968. I missed the summer of love by one year. I lived in the mission district. Also I was a bicycle messenger in the downtown area. When I lived there the cable car was only 25 cents and you could get a transfer to ride the other means of transportation. About 5 years ago I looked on the internet and the cable car was 5 dollars to ride. I loved San Francisco. There so many things to do. As a matter of fact I met Carlos Santana at hippie hill in Golden Gate Park. Eventually I moved to Oregon and have been here every sense. BART was under construction the hole time that I lived there. Saw a lot of good concerts at the Fillmore West.
"Missed it by THAT much!"...Maxwell Smart in the 1960s TV sitcom "Get Smart."
I stayed near Fisherman's Wharf last year for a staycation and had no issues. I am going back next month.
So, how many of the stores are open? I saw a video of a guy walking through the tourist area and he was showing that all the stores were boarded up (like 90% of them). Is that true? He said there was only 1 Target left open in the city and everything in the store was locked up in plexiglass boxes so you had to get an associate to get it for you.
@@JC-tq8gm I didn't find it so at Fisherman's Wharf. Pier 39, and the Embarcadero last year. This year, it can be true near MOMA and Saluhall (IKEA building).
@@JC-tq8gm I was born and raised in SF and still live here (right next to Golden Gate Part). There are actually 3 Targets open in the city. The one that guy was talking about was downtown- high tourist area. The other two are in non-tourist neigborhoods: Stonestown and in the City Center, which also has a Whole Foods that will be opening up there soon.
Yes, so stores have plexiglass cases, but when I google plexiglas, locked up, stores, an article about the Twins Cities pops up about why detergent is locked up. It seems like it's not only a trend in San Francisco, but other cities across the US.
This is first rate reporting, right here. Another prime example of why Wonderhussy Public Media should be at 2.69M followers, not 269K. I drove down the Pacific Coast highway, once and had no intention of stopping in San Francisco, but when I took in the view of the Golden Gate Bridge, it was just too irresistible to pass up. I booked a bunk at a hostel and found a parking garage about 5 miles away where you could park for $20 a day, and then walked everywhere - dinner in China town - not.a bad cup of coffee anywhere to be found (other than Starbucks). Hands down, the most beautiful city in these whole United States - there's no close 2nd. I could never afford to live there, but would if I could. Maybe when enough tech bros leave for their low-tax capitalist Utopia of Texas, the rents will come back down again for normal people.
I ❤ her tooooo.
Just because of simple geography, San Francisco will never become a Detroit.
Yes, but isn’t that the point !! It is definitely out of realistic expectations for us normal “ textile’s…..
@@patcaribou Rent will come down? Lol, not likely, you under estimate the greed of people.
PCH is a mice, nice ride. When I drove it, there was a point where the speed limit went really low. Couldn't understand as there was beach to my left and grassy fields to my right. Then I saw the 2 cows. On the beach. Apparently the PCH was built through a farm /ranch and the cows had beach rights! Lol. California cows are happy cows. I can see why.
Thx for a stroll down memory lane. Grew up in The City and attended school and university there during the 1950’s through to 1970. I often get nostalgic for my home town and your post filled me with a sense of joy and hopefulness as The City, aside from some negative publicity, looks very much the same with its quirkiness and modernity. Thank you. Safe travels. S
Sometimes I watch videos more than once
It's not that I'm a dirty old man.. well I'm not that old
I watch them at work and sometimes I miss some. So I have to watch it again to make sure I didn't miss the latest edition of wonderjussy. All the bad news in the world and you don't cover any of it. As a veteran I thank you for not having a bunch of violent stuff on here
! Salute
Awesome video WH. In 84 i was on a solo motorcycle trip. Making my way to SF when i stopped a little town. Moro Oregon. Went to the local watering hole for something to eat and a beer. Got talking to a local farmer and he said staaay away from SF “They’ll steal you blind”. So that story has been going for at least 40 years. Wish ida kept going. 🙂
Exactly. And you've never been able to leave anything visible in a car in that city or any other.
Howdy Sarah! Thanks for sharing another awesome journey, stay safe out there! 😉
10 minutes in,and you're right,its nothing like we've been hearing. Where's all the homelessness, the poop on the sidewalk and overall dysfunction?
Hi Hussy!
We had a similar experience last year around fisherman's wharf and Garadelli Sq. And we went on a Tuesday morning. Later when I was telling a relative, he about had a cow saying I was making it all up and that SF is a dump. Of course he hadn't been there himself in years
About 16 minute mark: Wonderhussy is on the Embarcadero, about a half mile north of the Giants ballpark
Wow, nothing gets past you! 😂
@@AndrewLumsden i made the comment because people who don't know SF might have thought she was still at Fisherman's Wharf
I was by city hall and it was really sketchy open air drug use for blocks
That’s gone now.
I lived in the East bay for 3 years..I loved going to the city!
Same!
Thank you Wonderhussy! I did see that other TH-cam video last week, Mr Gloom & Doom didn’t thrill me. Chamber of Commerce should pay you for this one.
I’m a long time fan, 30 miles south of SF in Menlo Park.
That other youtuber must have sent his followers to your channel to dislike this video. Screw them, if that's the case. Your true fans love what you do, Wonderhussy! ❤❤❤
I still am not sure what this "other TH-camr" is. I know Michael Shellenberger is making a living crapping on the city, but I doubt it's him in this instance because Wonderhussy mentioned the TH-camr specifically covered the Fisherman's Wharf.
Yup
WOW Wonderhussy wonderful footage! Thank you very much for your kind words and encouragement for Our wonderful state of California. Your work is outstanding and you deserve all of the best in your life and more!! Love watching your videos!
May I add fantastic editing? This was awesome for me to see all the way from the east coast.
Loved the video! Being born and raised in Sacramento, the northern coast was my second home. Sure do miss my ocean. I think of it daily from this dry desolate, tumbleweed state. 😒Thanks for the road trip and nostalgia Wonderhussy! We love you. 💗💗💗
Where are you?
Born , raised and still living here 70 years. Thank you for a very nice video of our city. You look very nice also.
I absolutely adore your adventurous spirit.
Thanks for another great video!
Well said, that's why I work and live in San Francisco. However, I do have a home in Utah to escape on the weekends.
Interesting video. Sarah.
I guess all big cities have their problems.
There are lots of areas in LA that look way worse than anything you showed us. San Francisco has some cool stuff and some crazy stuff too.
Thanks for sharing.
Safe travels.
I was in SF in May, for the WNBR and Bay to Breakers race. Several of the restaurants I used to frequent have closed down, and there certainly was a lot of other shops that were lying empty. Somewhat misrepresentative to be in the middle of the tourist centre on 4th July weekend. The ferry building also has several free toilets.
Thank ypu so much for this view of SF. It actually gave me hope.
Adventure is what you make of traveling. Like you I enjoy seeking out the hidden gems while traveling. I'd travel to San Francisco before returning to some of the down south closed at sundown rural towns. Thank you for another great adventure video Wonderhussy!!!
I have to say, I find you and your expeditions to be full of amazing and interesting things. The first vid I watched a couple years ago when I got out of the hospital after being placed in a coma because the powers that be are too useless to look at my med history (at that same hospital) Really picked up my mind and put me in a trance for more more more. Thank you so much for helping me get thru the mess they left me in. Thank you WONDERHUSSY ❤
Thanks for the report Sarah Wonderhussy!! Great good news to see things are still OK at San Fran, always loved that city!! XO, Max (long time subscriber and denizen of The Mojave Desert.....)
Things are not " ok" in San Francisco...yes it was busy when Sarah shot this ..but businesses ARE leaving in droves...and in the Tenderloin it's an open air drug market...bc it's an election year, the powers that be are doing some damage control...it IS nice to see tourism isn't 💯 dead yet...but I wouldn't waste my $ going there, unless like Sarah, I had a free place to stay, and off street parking... I've been several times anyway
I was in San Francisco decades ago and really liked it. Amusing that you conflate Ann Arbor, Michigan with Mayberry. Ann Arbor is one of the most liberal cities in the USA and is the home of the University of Michigan. The ultra left Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) first met in Ann Arbor when San Francisco was run by Republicans.
"...when San Francisco was run by Republicans..." = "...when dinosaurs ruled the Earth..."
@@janibeg3247 I was a Dem for 30 years when it was the anti-war, pro free speech, small gubmint party. My my my how things have changed.
The last time I was in San Francisco, I had a problem with my navigation. It kept telling me to go straight on Castro Street.😊
It just sent me out of town
Ha!
I was here right across the street from the Ghirardelli Square complex today, on my daily walk:)
Ace reporter Wonderhussy brings us another top story. Highs and lows of San Fran. Not a deep dive, but a balanced few days. No chocolate in the pot 😢,a major disappointment. An eleven mile stroll in an altered state seems like a win. Thanks for this Op-Ed piece Sarah. ❤❤Stay safe
You had the Buena Vista right behind ya in the shot.. The Famous Irish Coffee? Why didn't go in and get one?
The streetcar at 11:54 is known as a PCC streetcar, that one was built in 1948.
I spent my childhood (up to age 9) there in SF, and those street cars used to run up/down Market Street. We lived in the Mission district. A fond memory was my mom taking me to Playland, a no-longer there, amusement park at the end of Fulton Street and Great Highway, on those streetcars, going thru the Twin Peaks tunnel from downtown.
They Really Cleaned up the Street that runs along the Great Hwy !! Drove through there July 2023 and there was a Shit Load of Detritus for Blocks !! Your friend was Right ! Safe Travels !!
In 2005 our family and some friends drove a 32 ft motorhome thru SF talk about laughing until you cry experience.
Thank you WonderHussy great video as always
Didn't hear any gun shots for about a half an hour, sounds safe to me.
Do you really think San Francisco has a problem with guns ? Lol
@@Chrisb8sRight? @ScottMaytham doesn’t want to admit that SF is one of the safest American big cities for violent crimes per capita. It ruins his hype parade.
Highs and lows everywhere. Enjoy the ride…god bless America.
Living in metro Detroit I didn't think SanFransico was all that bad. All large cities will have depressed areas.
I've been to San Francisco several times and would visit again.
Great vlog of my city. I would suggest if you really wanted to see an area that has some issues, then you'd have to walk through the SOMA district. Around the city's overpasses of I80 starting in the South of Market area all along Howard and Bryant streets to the Embarcadero. You'll see your share of the worst areas of SF guaranteed.
WH had no interest documenting reality or she would have visited those areas.
This is the first notification I’ve seen from you in many months, I thought maybe you went off the air!
Thanks for sharing. All big cities are having issues. Yes don’t leave anything in your car and be street wise. When you live rurally blight is in your face in the city it is hidden behind the facade of high-rises in bad neighborhoods.
Beautiful shot of the San Fransisco bridge at the end. Loved it!
I liked your take on the trash talk regarding SF. Visited many times over the last fifty years. Looks the same as always. What sets this major population center and tourism market apart from most is the vast and varied mass transit available.
Thanks so much for doing this! I love Metal Leo but a few months ago I saw his video on the Embarcadero in SF and how it was all boarded up. I have fond memories of that place so I went to see it myself and was pleasantly surprised to see it still had life and stores open!
It is always good to see for oneself. Some peole show doom. It can be very different if you just go and look for yourself.
@@jameshudkins2210absolutely! No doubt many stores/restaurants have closed and SF's drug and homeless issues have gotten worse but there is still a lot of good and beauty here.
Every major city has "bad" sections that are not representative of the whole. Even my small town population 9000 has some of those and we are in the Midwest. For a city as old as San Francisco you would be a fool to think it did not have low income areas. Wanna bet that Miami is the same? Right wing Red states often have the highest crime rates on a statewide basis, but they all want to say that Cali is worse when that is not true most of the time. Maybe it is because the politicians spread those rumors so you don't realize how bad your area is!!! Easier to point to others than to actually fix your town.
Cali is the worst in the USA.
Nice video 😊 be careful out there ! Wow! That driverless taxi was awesome 😎
I enjoyed your video! I've visited San Fran a few times and always had a good (and safe) time!
Great documentary,thanks for the clarification.
I surprised you found a functioning kiosk tiolet. However the demographic you frequently disparage, “old men with testicle hanging down to their knees” should not use the seats.Very unhygienic to submerge the sack if the bowl is at it’s proper levvel.
IF you surrendered yourself at the fire station, I would adopt you.
Aww how sweet you are ❤
O no I would ask Sarah out to dinner,then ask her were the nearest nude hotspring was to take a soak
California Bureaucracy.
Wonderhussy being given to a family in Fresno.
me too cfc
What a great episode !!!
Thanks Wonderhussy 🌸
I’ve had the chance to visit San Francisco, several times. Great experience, so I can honestly say, “I left my heart in San Francisco “!’
You have such a good way with words! Love your videos 😎
If you’re Elite White and Rich San Francisco is your type of town !😮
And yet white people aren’t the majority of S.F. It’s actually one of America’s most ethnically diverse cities.
@@deancorpuz7349
40% White Rich Elites live in San Francisco not everyone lives in a 3 million dollar home..😯
Thanks for some memories. Lived there for 12 years and loved it so much! Seems magical and strange just a little slower.
Wow I missed you. That would have been something to run into Wonderhussey on the streets of San Francisco. Thank you for coming and showing some good things. Those channels that only go to the worst parts are click bait.
One of your best vids, yet, Wonderhussy...I'm born, raised, educated and employed in the City, and lived in the SF Bay Area my entire 72 years "and counting" of my life and plan to die here, too....and for all the good and bad, there is no place better, over all, and even in spite of the higher cost of living...you get used to it and adapt, and the trade offs, in my opinion, would be TOO much to give up...!!! Nice to hear and see you enjoyed your time here....come back again, there's so much more to do and see throughout the entire Bay Area...!!! 👍👍
I lived in the Bay Area, including SF, for 30 years. I miss it.
My strongest memories of San Francisco are as a young teen straight from a Colorado mountain town , population 11 , spending a couple of days in the Haight durring the Summer of Love ('67) .As Gomer Pyle would say , "Goll-lly!" Probably best to leave it at that and not revisit nowadays . Enjoyed your video as you don't seem to have an agenda or put a slant on things .
i am glad you enjoyed SF, Wonderhussy. I've been a resident since1975. Came here when I was 7.
SF today is no worse than any other city, perhaps better. The last place you visited in your video was The Great Highway (lower Great highway). it's not that bad there. Just transients mostly trying to figure things out. There are worse parts of town but overall I feel that it is a safe city. overnight parking is challenging to say the least. It is still a charming place to visit. keep it up.
I've seen alot of videos of San Francisco and have been heartbroken to see what had become of it. I'm a Vegas girl like you and like you I enjoy travel. My favorite drive is up the coast of California. Before the pandemic I made that drive from Vegas to Sebastopol with my grandkids and it was wonderful. After seeing those videos I'd decided not to make the trip again. You just changed my mind while Californians say Vegas is a nice place to visit but they wouldn't want to live here ( many of them have moved here) I love to visit California but I love my Vegas and wouldn't want to relocate to Cal.. Thanks for this video.
Tenderloin District, which currently experiences the highest rates of homelessness..... The top two reasons to avoid this area are the high population of homeless people, in addition to drug activity. Sorry U missed this devestating part of the city. but we want U to stay safe....
go to the mission and other parts of san francisco and you'll see lots of homeless and tents. They clean up the tourist areas. Next time go to the tenderloin at night and some of the surrounding areas and you will see lots of things you dont want to see. Just dont go alone. Amazing job on the video sarah!
So the same as every other city?
@@Dylansesco lol, come check it out.
@@Daniel-bx7ej check what out?
Perfect episode. Thank you, for your honest reporting. Would love to visit there some day 🙂
Thanks for this video. I have watched plenty of videos showing the supposed decay of San Francisco. I have been there as a visitor and former California resident plenty of times and it always made me so sad to think that all those places I hold in fond memory are no more. Yet, here you post another video showing what you see. You are so right, the camera angle dictates the narrative. My superpower is to go to places that are pretty crowded. Bryce Canyon e.g. and I am able to shoot hundreds of pictures with not another human in the frame.
Yes there are a lot car break ins in your friend’s area there’s often a line in the district police station of people making reports. I can attest to the poop and pee in some areas it’s bad along with the open air insane asylum of the Tenderloin. I’m a native San Franciscan and the City has plenty of beautiful areas but unfortunately the bad has been slowly spreading to areas that normally wouldn’t see the bad. Yes the politicians and the people that keep them office have some blame for what the City has become in many areas. While I agree there is some hype the hype (generalizations) is based on truth’s.
Thanks for speaking up and the truth! It’s nuts what’s happened to SF. 40 percent of all businesses have left or closed..that’s a disaster!
@@ActiveTravelWestUSA it’s become a tourist Mecca for criminals from outside of the City.
Dear Wonderhussy,
Hi, well just had to comment .... as is apparent, many don't know what is happening.....we are in a monopoly game worldwide in which continuously the rich get richer and the rest go bankrupt in a constant inflation and which inequality goes to the extreme ( billionaires and billions in poverty) until a final collapse occurs , ( according to MIT , 2040 give or take) . So...... the masses are spending a lot , as in A LOT less on non essentials, so I have witnessed over the years , a massive drop in tips and a massive increase in expenses for everything like housing, gas, food, etc . Leading to the situations we are seeing, on the wharf with big expensive restaurants closing and Starbucks doing great. Like climate change and war , urban blight and homelessness is increasing , and like the proverbial frog slowly heating to boiling, ( oh this Hot Tub is now a Stew Pot and I didn't get a notice ) we don't notice a big enough change to get the fuck out ( like you and me near Death Valley did get out) , of the cities which will suffer the worse as they are the financial monopoly board squares, and have huge populations of poor people, in the great depression and ww II the best went through living on farms, where food is always needed no matter who wins. ( today need to go greenhouses with controlled parameters)
So...... go solar, get and Aptera electric car, get a ecohome and be prepared for regular life to cease slowly..... but surely..... the climate, war, and economy are all going to get a lot worse , until we get a new civilization paradigm ( Electronic Exchange, Universal Income, etc ) and leave the industrial civ. behind.
Short background; I was accepted as San Francisco Art Institute in 1978, moved on to Yosemite for three and half years, and college at Columbia in the Sierra then HSU up north, point is went into Hospitality; Yosemite restaurants, New England Inn North Conway New Hampshire , Napili Kai Beach Resort on Maui, Idaho Flynns, ID, Knickerbocker Mansion, Big Bear Lake, Ca , L'Auberge Sedona , AZ etc...... so I have seen a lot of the restaurant / lodging industry. ON point: the economy IS , according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Study called "Limits to Growth" in which computer simulation models of real world goods and services / raw materials / pollution etc parameters PROVED that the real world IS a monopoly game model : IE : competition for money in a capitalist ( fractional reserve monetary system of fiat currency utilizing a private Federal Reserve / Swift / Central Bank establishment)monetary system . Thx for reading my " thought you might find this interesting" comments. LOL Theodore ( The Alien of the Outpost )
Thx Sarah for a fair, objective view of the city by the bay. Didn't look half as bad as downtown L.A .
Happy, safe trails.
I was there around 4th of July it was a great trip. The weather was unbelievable great.
Good ol' SF. Some things change, some things never will You gotta love it.
Great upload Wonderhussy really enjoyed your latest adventure. Thanks! Cheers!!
1997 trip in San Francisco. Was interesting . Especially walking through the park and all the Victorian houses don't forget ride on the back of the cable car
i lived in SF for 40+ years. wonderful weather. Great city!!🙏🥰
👍👍👍👍👍😃, A grade A SF tour, thank you! Makes you Wonder what you can believe anymore...........
Native Bay Area kid here. SF has its ups and downs, but she always bounces back. And all cities have homeless problems right now. People like to dis on SF, and I’ve noticed that lots of them haven’t even ever been here. Really, we’re doing okay out here, come out to see for yourself.
I love San Francisco. I try to go at least twice per year, and always enjoy it and feel jealous of you guys who get to be there full time. One of these days I’ll move out there for a while! ❤
Nice try, bum
Well, I'm a native and I disagree. See my comments .
Lol.... Hey lib, all is not well there and everyone knows it. Why do you delude yourself?
@@flameofthewest6196 so not true
My Scotch-Irish ancestors settled in Dogpatch, SF on both sides of my family of origin.
Wonderhussy's in the Babe Area!! Yay!! Hooray! Welcome WH, we're so happy you came to visit. 🌸🏵🌺🌼
Now, back to the video.
Hey there, Wonderhussy! I was born in the Washoe County Medical Center and got my bachelors degree from SF State in the 90s. I even sang at the SF Opera once upon a time. My wife and I were just back in SF a week or so ago and it doesn’t seem like much has changed. I lived in the Mission Dist. It was kind of scary then, it’s kind of scary now. We had drinks at Zombie Village in the Tenderloin Dist. It was scary then, it’s scary now. We did park our car at our hotel in Union Square so we wouldn’t get robbed and it was fine. All those Waymo Jaguars are in L.A. too and park right outside people’s condos with loud reverse beeps and super-red brake lights on (ask me how I know!). Anyway, long-time watcher, first-time commentator. Keep up the good work!
Good " dive bar". My favorite is " Pier 23" live it !!
Best SF dive bar is or was "Peg's Place."
Bet you won't make it 1 block in the mission or tenderloin district without having your cam or phone snatched....you do know that city has a free poop app..
Showing a map of piles of human poop all over the city...does any other city have a human poop app?????
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I’m a local. Your assessment of SF is correct. It’s something in the middle. It hasn’t recovered from the pandemic but it hasn’t lost its charm.
You have the best video tour of SFO. Very entertaining!