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- There are two sides of the San Francisco story. You've heard one of them, a lot. This is the other one. None of this is fact checked, so consider all 'facts' approximate. LMK in the comments what I got wrong.
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I went to san francisco this past summer, and let me tell you: it was not NEARLY as bad as the news said. We drove through the worst part of San Francisco (the tenderloin district) and yes, it was bad there, but the whole city overall was actually very cool and nice. We did see one broken windshield (I dont believe we saw anymore) but it was just a really good city.
Yeah a lot of it is overblown. Your experience is pretty typical. There is, however, some pretty hilarious news coming out of SF this week. The cleaned up the entire downtown in three days to get ready for the APEC Conference.
If you park in SF at night there is a very good chance your car will be broken into. Especially if you have out-of-state license plates.
Went to Missions District. Was really clean man
@@tomhite3510I parked in my driveway every night for the past year and it has never happened to me
Thank you so much for not doing another one of " Oh God, I'm dying ". I don't expect you guys to believe the experience I've had by the Ferry Building two weeks ago. I'm a Ukrainian American who's got friends and loved ones fighting on both sides and there are days when I'm a complete mess. That day was one of those days. So I'm at the Ferry Building chasing the seagulls- " Come back here, I just wanna take your picture! " and this lady comes over and we start talking. She's obviously mentally ill but she's also sharp and incredibly smart so we start talking about Ukraine. And I completely break down and start crying. And Maria is holding my hand and is comforting me. I wanted to take her picture but she refused so I asked for a hug. So the Loin or those out of control people on the bus are not SF. Maria is.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm glad to hear that SF is a positive and comforting place for you. All the best for your friends abroad.
I never watch "why is this city dying videos" Most people don't understand that the titles are click bait. The more people who visit your channel the more money you make. Alot of TH-cam has exaggerated content.
I hope your loved ones stay safe, and that this war ends soon.
Thank you for introducing some honesty and realism.
San Francisco has its problems just like every other major city but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a city so visually beautiful and teaming with such caring souls.
Be Well in 2024🧡😊
I lived in San Francisco for twenty five years. I finally left in 2013, because it has gotten so insanely expensive that it just wasn't fun anymore. Cost of living doubled from 2007 until 2008, and then it doubled again until 2009. Property taxes increased. It just wasn't payable.
It's certainly an expensive place to live.
But once you buy a house in California your property tax cannot increase more than 2% per year, i.e. less than inflation.
I just talked to a Ph.D biotech engineer that lived by SF Mission District's Dolores Park. Cool, but he was renting a walk-in closet. That was all he could afford.
I left in 2015. I was done. I believe it was the ladt year it was good. I visited a couple years l8ter and felt so unsafe I left.
8 minutes is not enough to tell the story of SF. You can spend more than that in any neighborhood and neighborhoods is exactly what makes this city unique. This city is rich in history and cultural diversity and you can tell a story about every neighborhood you visit. The waterfront itself used to be a wall of freeway, now its an vast open vista filled with people walking along the waterfront. Along with that grew an entire neighborhood that include the Giants stadium and Warriors arena, and Mission Bay/China Basin anchored by UCSF and a new biotech industry. We know about the older neighborhoods like Northbeach, Haight and Castro .. but there are whole new thriving neighborhoods like Hayes Valley, Filmore, Polk, and Valencia. It is rich with museums like Musuem of Modern Art, Asian Art Museum, Jewish Museum, De Young, Legion of Honor and Academy of Science and the Exploratorium. Arts, opera house, symphony, performance theaters. And more than 4500 restaurants in a city less than 50 square miles. This is a wonderful city to live in if only you can afford to live in it.
All great points!
Gorgeous city. I work and play in SF. One in a million!
Nice editing! The first time I visited San Francisco was in 2009. I absolutely fell in love with the city and decided to move there in 2012. I lived there for 3 years.
In the last 3 years things have gotten really bad and I don’t even feel like visiting the city anymore.
I love the natural beauty and the architecture there but I don’t feel safe in the city.
Thank you!
I agree. Things got really bad in a lot of places during the pandemic. Fortunately some are a lot better now.
Yeah, if you've actually lived in the city then you would know to stay away from the Tenderloin. It's literally impossible that no one mentioned that to you in three years. So why not just stay out of the neighborhood that you know is bad and enjoy the city?
@@TohaBgood2 How the hell can you enjoy the city when the politicians are making it more unsafe each and every day. Their chosen blacks are just trashing the place just like all the drug addicts that are protected. You must have your head up your butt, and will continue to vote for people like the newscum.
I lived there from 2006-2018. It only took 3 yrs to see the radical fees, fines and taxes. Non locals don't even know the worse of it and I'm sick and tired to explain to them. In 2016 I said they will lose their mall and everyone laughed at me.
What sane person would?
Moved there in ‘79 and moved back in ‘82 and so far have never looked back. But it sure was a different city 40 years ago.
Although, even then it was the overall vibe that sent us hot-footing it back to New Yawk…
Born n raised here. Still bad ass. Just stay away from downtown and TL.
Still love it here.
This! Stay away from the one neighborhood where Fox News films all of its segments and you'll have a great day in SF. That's it.
Great coverage! Every every “youtuber” would cover the good and the bad, there video would telling truth about anything! Many “youtubers” focus on the negative and don't let go, because it sells and works for a clickbait. However, you tell the truth. Mostly everything has a positive and a negative, and we should consider them. This is why I stopped listening to some of these “youtuber’s” videos with their exaggerated handles. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it! You're right, the "doom loop" is a lot more clickable than what I did. I wanted to focus on the positive while still showing a bit of both sides. Thanks for watching!
Well I welcome you to what people have done covering Detroit for the last 30 years. So much good but only the bad gets clicks smh
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Cool video. San Francisco is a *beautiful & amazing* city. I know because I live in San Francisco as a *native resident.*
It's certainly not dystopian despite what one might hear on those propaganda outlets.
Anyways great to see you enjoying your time in the city by the bay😀👍💯
Thank you! I agree, there’s a lot to love. Glad you liked the video!
I think what I noticed the most is how empty the attractions were.
To be fair, I did intentionally go to every location at off days/hours and avoided filming people as much as possible because I'm embarrassed lol. But It's definitely less crowded in mosts places than it was pre covid.
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It's coming back. San Francisco Tourist Association says there was a 211% increase in international tourism in 2022.
@@neutrino78xyeah because went from zero do to Covid look at the date don’t be told
where are the people ???
it seems soulless
I was there for 3 1/2 hours with my wife. I noticed right away mentally ill people all over the place. The sidewalks were filthy, with an arm in nearly every trash can. I saw people talking to people but there was no one there. Then we had a guy pull down his zipper and expose himself in front of my wife as he pissed all over a news stand on the side walk. At that point we decided to flee the city as we found the city to be disgusting.
That sucks. Where were you?
We were at fisherman's Warf where we encountered all the garbage pickers, and the mentally ill. We decided to leave, as we did not feel comfortable there. We went through China town were we did not have problems, but beyond that we decided to play a game where we would try to guess how many bums would be at the next intersection. We were on a motorcycle. As we stopped at one intersection with one bum, he decided to piss on the news stand while we were stopped at the light. The wife insisted that we flee the city and I did not argue. @@AdamDoesNotExist
Lol, welcome to sf!
Every city has a bad part. Why did you stay in that area instead of a nicer area.?
A guy took a pee and you fled? I'm pretty sure no major city will be safe for you!
First of all Adam, I love your name 😅. I have lived here in San Francisco for 35 years and I still really love it here. Yes, it has changed over 35 years, as every place has. Great video, by the way and I really like the attractions you spotlighted in this video.
Hahaha, likewise! I'm glad to hear I'm making a 35yr SF local proud!
Great video! I love San Francisco. I have lived in the East Bay in Pleasanton for 20 years and have always loved San Francisco. Sure, there are negatives about the city, but the positives such as what you captured in your video, which I applaud you for, supersede or outweigh the bad things about it that are portrayed in the media.
Thank you! I completely agree. Glad you enjoyed the video!!
San Francisco is a great American city, its biggest challenge is an incompetent mayor in way over her head. Mayor Breed's days are numbered and with new leadership this great American city will be back.
I have visited 3 times from the Uk over the years and you are right it hasn’t changed my mind to cancel plans to visit next year. Your video is excellent and brought back happy memories but where are the people ? I remember it as a bustling community and a safe place to visit. Living in a quiet village of 60 houses a Church and a pub, it now would be too much of a contrast. Hoping I get to return before long haul flights are too much for me lol
Thank you! I was visiting mid week in off times intentionally to avoid crowds. But overall it is a bit less busy in the city than it was pre pandemic.
@@AdamDoesNotExistthe last time i drove to San Francisco from Stockton homeless and drug addicted are almost everywhere in San Francisco most of the store are closed down due to high crime and shoplifting the last time i saw a mentally ill white woman i believe she is homeless take a SHIT in front this Italian restaurant over on north beach in front of customers while they eatin their food that is just so nasty
don't tell people that it's actually really safe and clean we don't want the type of people who think homeless people are garbage and not human beings here.
I was fortunate to live in the City in the 70s' it was fantastic then and I have so many great memories. I worked at Fisherman's Warf, lived first on Sanchez, then moved up to Diamond Heights. Yes, it breaks my heart to see what's happened to SF.
It certainly has changed a lot. Sadly much of it for the worst. Though what city hasn't changed since the 70s?
It is not that bad. I go there every Saturday. Come and see for yourself.
The title of this video has a question: Is it Really That Bad? Your answer to this question, as I see it: definitely YES! It is that bad. The answer you gave at the end of the video is to a completely different, and diverging, question: is worth it to VISIT San Francisco? Yes. Stick to the tourist-designated areas and you wouldn't have to see the really bad things about SF even you have to admit. Visit. Don't stay. Because it would be bad for you.
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True! Though it's really hard to convey exactly how I was feeling in an 8 minute video. My answer to 'is it that bad' is a bit more nuanced. It is that bad in certain places, but not everywhere. And if that matters to you is a personal choice. I didn't really try to answer if you should live there, but perhaps that was part of my motivation. Again, that's a very personal question.
So San Francisco its like Cuba, Theres separeted places to tourists see, not to see The flop areas
It doesn't matter if you stick to the tourist areas. If you rent a car it will get broken into.
He ‘lost’ his helmet. It was stolen.
Pretty sure I put it under the seat on the bus and forgot about it…
A tourist can definitely have an okay experience visiting San Francisco and sticking to the high traffic tourist spots, but the residents and daily migratory work force from around the Bay Area are having a terrible experience. The city has essentially attempted to save face and swept a lot of their problems under the rug by moving homeless and open air drug markets to less traveled areas that are mainly populated by residents and businesses. Much like the CCP of China, saving and maintaining face is more important than actually fixing the problems at their source. I used to go all over different parts of the city that doesn’t have all of these famous coffee shops, malls, restaurants, museums, and hotels. Many of those areas have been horrible even before the pandemic due to lackluster policy surrounding crime and far-too-progressive DAs and mayors who have shackled their own law enforcement command structure. I’ve lived just south of San Francisco for over 30 years and only ever voted Democrat, but this recent string of far-left Progressives have absolutely demolished the quality of life for lower income and middling income San Francisco residents who stuck around. Very sad to see. Great video, a couple of the spots you showed are still tourist attractions, but are definitely lesser known ones. I can tell you have lived in the area before.
Thank you! I did live there for a few years. Interesting comparison to the CCP
Hope you keep videos like this coming! They are great, deserves way more views!
Thank you very much!
Uplifting and positive - and frankly, it’s a relief to still pick up some good vibes from the city by the bay as she generally appears to have fallen on hard times...
Maybe a couple of billionaires could help some of those folks out who are living (and dying) on the streets. It was their ‘innovative’ enterprises which drove up rents so high that only rich folks could continue to live there…
Thanks - good film. Well done…
Thank you! I appreciate the comment.
Think about what you are saying.
Only rich people can live in the city.
So why would very rich million and billionaires live in San Francisco if it is so awful. It is true that San Francisco is a very wealthy city. So why does such a high percentage of the population bring home such huge salaries.
Some of you don’t think very deeply.
You will believe whatever the media tells you.
@@lori8379 I’m 72 years old, my father was a stock broker and my best friend from high school entered the same ‘profession’ and has now been, for many years, a multi-millionaire, a fact that he doesn’t brag about but never wants you to forget…
I’m an artist, I have other interests in life than generating wealth but some folks obviously are different. Personally though, I believe that having a system that allows for the accumulation of enormous wealth by some folks while other Americans - by circumstance or by other means - find themselves ‘living’ in the streets and on the sidewalks of our nations cities to be an abomination.
And what could an individual possibly do in a lifetime to be personally worth a billion or more dollars? Maybe our public service people have that kind of value to society, at least more so than the clever, avaricious and greedy financial class who are grossly and stupendously over compensated…
Great production. Lived in S.F. and on peninsula off and on since 1957. My mother loved S.F. (first lived there in 1939. She died from a heart attack walking up Nob Hill she didn't want to go out any other way. And S. F. has a unique attraction to women ( could write a book). A car in S.F. is a waste.
Thank you!
Thanks for the positive spin. Can you make it less cold and windy, with better beaches, though?
You just need a jacket and a wetsuit!
I used to go to San Francisco every year for my birthday, it has definitely changed ALOT in a negative way but the beauty of San Fran WILL ALWAYS be there… just please change your leadership PLEASEEEE
It could be so so amazing! I agree with you!
Was just there and loved it!
Ya love to hear it!
Great video. I like them under 10 minutes intensely packed with fascinating information as yours is.
Awesome, thank you!
Lol. So everyone who has been there before and loved it should just lower their expectations by 99% and they won’t be disappointed upon their return. Gotcha.
If you visited and loved it before, you’ll probably find that it’s about the same.
I recently visited SF for the first time in 23 years, expecting a mess, but it was lovely... at least the areas I spent time (Mission, Castro, Sunset districts). I'm sure there are some very sad areas, but it's not all in shambles.
That’s great! You might also just be a positive guy! The mission is getting quite a bit of bad press these days.
@@AdamDoesNotExist Could have been lucky and just missed some of the mess, but coming from LA and San Diego, it seems on par (both have their charming and sketchy areas, and everything in-between).
Trust those who have actually been to the city recently. Anybody else is just brainwashed by the media and frankly are harboring quite a lot of bitterness and ill well. Geographically speaking, San Francisco is not large enough to have a bunch of bad neighborhoods. The tenderloin is the neighborhood that is skid Row it has always been Skid Row.
The city is beautiful and unique. I think that’s why it’s getting a lot of negative attention. In general, there is so much negativity in the media. It’s quite obvious they seek to destroy and lie to push their conservative agenda.
No matter for the time being, the truth always prevails, and so will this beautiful city.
In the "SF is a shitehole" videos, I always say, "let me know when the rents go down so I can go back home" =p
Hahaha. That’s great!
Great video. This is going on in all major cities, but that should not stop anyone from visiting some great places all over the USA.
Thank you! I agree!!
SF is still a fun place to go to . there are some places you CAN NOT GO . Don't Go Out at night . Do NOT put anything in your car , Do NOT fight if You ever get arm car jack . Do NOT try to stop anyone if you were going to a store and someone walk out with stolen items . 30% of downtown are empty store front . If you feel someone is following you , Don't stop , Do Not take your phone out . People do run and take it off your hand .etc.... 1 last thing, Be Really Careful what you touch in the public , the Drug call F is no joke .
That's a bit more cautious than I was in SF, but in general that's good advice. There are still places you can go out at night without worry, but there are also certainly places to avoid any time of day.
Gee, sounds really fun, thanks!
I’m going to sf, I had no idea about this. Thank you 🙏
Damn I’ve lived here for 16 years and have never been followed, had my car broken into, or had something bad happen to me at night, there is for sure homelessness but from what I’ve experienced they mostly mind their own business and arnt really threatening
The thing about Union Square dying is fine. The magic of The City is in the neighborhoods.
You're right, it didn't change my mind. I want to see San Francisco for myself❤
San Francisco took a blow to its attractiveness with the closing of both Mithcell Brothers' O'Farrell Theature and Market Street Cinema, unique for having lap dances in the audience with touching both welcome and encouraged! Landmarks are enoyable to view, but an intimate interaction with a beautiful woman is hard to surpass.
Century Theater on Larkin still open
Ranked the 7th happiest places to live in the US.
Didn't know that! But I could see why
Hiking "The City" is my favorite activity! I steer clear of the bad areas of course! Great video!
Same! There’s so much to see and do, and it’s really not hard at all to avoid bad areas. Glad you liked the video!!
Lived in SF for over 5 years and visited recently. Hey, bottom line is that the diameter of the inner city just got significantly bigger!
That's a good way to look at it!
SF has both nice clean safe areas primarily in the neighborhoods and tourists spots as well as sketchy unsafe dirty areas with homeless and crime primarily downtown and the Tenderloin. Just depends which youtube vloggers want to show
Yup totally. You can film to support just about whatever narrative you want to share.
It would be nice if more people in SF moderated their politics or ideology, but that won't happen until the city is fog-free & no longer susceptible to earthquakes. A majority of voters in Chicago earlier this yr elected a person who's even more far left than who he replaced (sometimes nicknamed Beetlejuice), & too many folks in SF are no less (quote, unquote) lefty (as opposed to "leftist")
It clear that you already know this, but the situation is a lot more complicated than it may appear.
San Francisco has the third most expensive real estate in the United States. All you have to do is avoid the bad part of the city. The same thing is true in Oakland.
Totally agree
Im here in SF since the 80’s. Good video. It’s a dystopian jewel box. Dangerous AH & pretty.
You know better than I do, that about sums it up!
Fisherman's Wharf is where my niece went with her family last January. They live in upstate New York and were shocked to find cars being robbed and people were taking it as a normal occurrence. Needless to say, no police were around.
Sounds like some exagerration
@@mteokay1246 Unfortunately, it happened just as they described it to me. That came from my 2 nieces, a nephew, and their kids. My niece's family are now considering a shotgun for home protection.
I just came from SF/ Oakland last week and this is definitely still happening. I seen a man do a smash and grab in broad daylight in front of the restaurant I was eating at.
How many of you out there are afraid to look up the actual crime statistics in major, and not so major cities in the United States. It may not actually support your exaggerated claims. You may be shocked. But try it anyway it’s fun to look up things and to get actual facts.
Also, I’m curious to know where some of you live I would like to look up a few things about your crime statistics as well and maybe some of your not so nice neighborhoods.
It’s good to share.
The event I cited is, of course, completely anecdotal in nature. It is one incident. However, the observation by my other niece is borne out by news reports from major US news networks. As an aside, I do live in a country with areas that have a high crime/violence incidence. That is why my entire family is gun-trained @@lori8379
Really good video. There’s too much SF bashing already, many are actually politically motivated or geographical rivals. Plenty of problems for sure, but to call it a dystopian wasteland is laughable.
Hi, I am riding into SF via HW1 with my boyfriend and some others at the end of June. Can you recommend hotels where our bikes would be safe overnight? Staying a couple of days and really want to give the city a chance.
Hope you enjoyed your trip 😊
@@psfca Yes, we enjoyed San Francisco enormously! It is a beautiful city and we felt safe. The media coverage is overblown and I will tell everyone to visit if they have the time. Hopefully, I can make it back in the future with more time to spend.
Thank You so much for this video sir!! Im going there next month and ive been a little worried but after seeing your video I have hope!!! God bless
Glad you liked it! I think a bit of worry is probably warranted, but it's up to you if you want to have a good trip or not!
The beginning to an end. Tourist are not even coming there. Major hotels and business gone due to high requirements, standards, expenses, taxes, unaffordable mortgages and rent, crimes and overhead. The list goes on. The amount of vacancies of major buildings, tech jobs migrating to greener pastures or working from home, business decline due to city/state standards and crimes (shoplifting), big name retail stores leaving due to a weak justice system from increase crime rates, homelessness, mom an pop shops tired of the vandalism/ break-ins, and etc. This is a videos made 2 weeks ago compared to what SF looks like 10 yrs ago during this same summer time frame is usually filled with tourist. It’s empty and I don’t see the usual hustle and bustle SF usually has to offer. The roads, parks and major tourist attractions you just showed look like locals enjoying what they have left of San Francisco. We had friends come back from SF 2 days ago and they said they will not go back unless things change. They said it was truly depressing what they saw in downtown SF.
Downtown has changed a lot. In general I wouldn't recommend it to tourists. But all the classic tourist areas were still nice. I saw mostly tourists in those areas, and heard a lot of French, German and Spanish as well. I had a really good time while out and about as soon as I got out of downtown.
@@AdamDoesNotExist I’m glad you enjoyed the other local attractions. My point is someone has to explain the drastic drop in real estate for business and homes prices and the large amount of vacancies. A continuous exodus. Economy is disappearing which also affects tourism. My friends were saying it seem like a ghost town and few people were around the main attractions. They said it was a sad sight compared to the other years they were there. They told me go to Florida instead for my vacation and use your travel and hotel points there instead. Don’t get me wrong I love SF but to many have told me it’s not what it used to be.
@@johnjohncrisostomo6152it's people who Vote Politician tho'
@@GameplayTubeYT well people should realize blue does not work.
@@johnjohncrisostomo6152 don't look at color look at the Politician background if they Just tell lie on Election day don't vote those Guy! Innmy country too people like to vote by colors but that's what make my country a failure because what really solve the problem is by not voting liars, self centered Politician!
Ok, ok. Let's talk 😅First, this video is brilliant. You cover everything in a compact, swiftly moving, well-edited video. I am still learning my editing and getting better (my thought, maybe not others 😁) I, being a niche channel about NorCal, consume all things SF as we often travel there for music events, and I chronicle some of these stays in SF, so, that is why we like to stay at different hotels within the City. Your channel: It's sort of all over the place? You definitely have a nice number of subs vs. the number of videos, and some videos, like this one, see HUGE numbers, and others, not so much, and your shorts, the numbers, are ALL over the place (validating my reason to stay away from shorts, for now(ish)). I am going to SUB with hope that there is more content about the Bay. I will always follow and support other NorCal content creators. 👏👏Appreciate your time!
Hello there! Glad you liked this video and thanks for all the kind words! Your channel is really cool. Sub back atcha! I've resisted the temptation to "choose a niche" for a couple reasons. One - I'm interested in a lot of different stuff. The Bay Area of course (two videos from now is going to be another Nor Cal specific vid) but also cooking, and weird pages on the internet that no one has hear of. And Two - I don't really know why a video works or it doesn't. I made essentially the same video on Oakland. I thought it was a lot better than this SF video, but essentially no one watched it. And I don't really know why.
The shorts are purely from putting my longer videos into an AI thing called Opus. I thought it would be fun to experiment and see what happened. Not sure I'd recommend it, but it is cool to see how some get traction. All the best!
@@AdamDoesNotExist Yeah, "Choose a niche" was all the talk when getting into this hot mess 😆I did. And I have stuck with it, but I can certainly understand others who want to "explore." I want to get to that magical 1K subs, and I am closer, so, that I can buy a cup of coffee a week, maybe! After that, I will explore other content ideas. And yeah, the algorithm is a funny thing. I too recently tried an Opus offshoot, Vizard to shorten my long-form content to shorts. Eh, but, Ill try again for a few and see how it goes. Pleasure meeting you! 🥤
Sad thing is the places in the video all look abandoned and unpopulated.
The way I see it is that it’s the beginning of the end of what San Fran used to be… I remember visiting San Francisco (for the first time) in 2004/ 2005 with family members from Eastern Europe and even though they thought San Francisco had a lot of character and was a beautiful city in many aspects; at the same time they were literally disgusted and shocked at the filth and homelessness that existed then (imagine what they would say now)… they literally couldn’t believe it and said that it was a sad state of affairs no matter how much I tried to give them a positive spin on the situation… The thing is this, how much is one prepared to give in to bad policy for political expediency? What is the level of a dystopian society are you willing to accept? How much societal damage, crime, open air drug use, homelessness and filth is bearable…? If you like to go around and play the dandy-lionesque faux-tourist while ignoring almost completely the death spiral that San Fran is in, that’s fine with me… From any objective or rational perspective San Francisco is done, it’s tragic and upsetting and it won’t be a complete collapse but rather a sort of slow train wreck and after the crash you’ll be left with whatever pieces remain, which won’t be much… So, by all means, show the Full house houses, go down the curviest street, show us the botanical gardens (going through a tunnel that probably smelled of urine/ oh, spooky!), walk through the empty malls and walk by the boarded up retail shops… whatever… I guess enjoy San Fran while you can still bear it because one day you’ll even say, enough is enough.
When we came back to Cal., after living in Conn., and Ga. from 1973 - 1979 I was enrolled in an East bay school where we lived with my mom's sister in Castro Valley, Cal. for a few years. The first thing I noticed (coming from the East Coast) is how dirty and poor the school was. The kids dressed sloppily, had bad language, and disrespectful bad behavior. I even saw shit on the outdoor steps one day soon after I got there. It was disturbing to think a child would do that. I never thought it was dog poo and I thought it was an ill adjusted or not well functioning child that did it. I was shocked as a 4th grader to see so many differences in principles.
In Ga. everyone was well dressed and my school was clean and pleasant. Fast forward to now, living N. of Berkeley (The East Bay) see my comment from Metal Leo, he's got East Bay videos of stores closed too. I've been disgusted by my youngest daughter's "school" during "cvd" and we had to take her out of there. All the real men left here and took their families to nature or to where there are more real men and women protecting their children from the chem-tech-predators.
My comment from Metal Leo YT Channel's video called: every store is CLOSED in Embarcadero San Francisco. But he only mentions (it's Embarcadero Center (a shopping plaza) in his video descriptions. I never even went there, besides once) and that is not that important in Sf. Cross the street to the Ferry Plaza tower the whole Embarcadero strip is open and lively. Why doesn't he mention that? A lot of the people seem more like pre-covid types (real people), not that many mask tards.
Berkeley stores are closed due to them and the techies and bio-techies not nice to be around. They drove up the housing prices and drove the natural ones out of California or homeless. Over 700,000 (real) people left California (in 2020 alone!). There is also a (new) very large multicultural immigrant influx walking around enjoying what's left of the infrastructure in N. Berk., Alb, E.C. (that the disgusting politicians and "schools") hope will be order followers (of lies and malpractice). Along with the order following remote controlled robot UC "students" programmed with lies to work in the UN Agenda 2030 chemical tech. war industries that seek to bring in the Gnd/Communist/Nwo.
Just to let you know all of this began in 2012, since they've been visibly engineering the californiadrought and fires for me it was a nightmare, while all the blind EV drivers, techies and biotechies and fake (control) science profe$$ionals can't see or speak a word of truth.
The fog is never called Hot Karl
Never. Just Karl.
great video, you gotta hit that science museum though. It's the Academy of Sciences and it's sick, it has a rainforest biosphere and an aquarium basement
I know! It's probably top 3 things that I want to do in the bay but still haven't done!!
Last week I visited San Francisco for the second time in 6 months and I saw crackheads on the street, shit everywhere, closed down retail stores, shoplifting, homeless passed out on the streets. My flight home to London, England 🇬🇧 was later in the evening on my last day and I had had enough. I ventured out to San Mateo for the afternoon and what a delight. Clean, lovely shops and restaurants, a delightful library. It is such a shame what has happened in downtown San Francisco. I remember my first visit 20 years ago in Sep 2004. I loved it so much I came again 3 months later. Thanks for showcasing the good side of this beautiful city.
If you make it back, the further from downtown and mid market you get, the nicer it gets.
As a native, I lived there until 1980 then left for Sonoma County. Visited off and on until 2010 but haven't been there since especially with all that's going on now. Sad things have deteriorated so much.😞
I love Sonoma! It’s surprising to hear you haven’t been back especially considering how close you are.
How’s Rohnert Park and Cototi?
We lived on Dexter Circle back in the 70’s right by the entrance to the Rohnert Park Country Club Golf Course.
My Dad was a professor at Sonoma
University.
Both wonderful in my opinion. I like to stay in Rhonert Park when I visit overnight because it puts you right in the middle of the various wine regions (and Russian River Brewing!).
@@AdamDoesNotExist
I see, before my Dad purchased the house in Rohnert Park, We resided in Novato.
It was a blast being there, for the parties were cool.
BOSTON was a new Rock band that was the rage of the time.
That’s where I learned to drive .
We had a 1963 Avanti we would drive to Marin and Tiburon Bay and visit friends .
Stop believing the media honey they lie come back and have a good time. I live in Marin county and work in San Francisco. I enjoy San Francisco as much as I always have. My family and I had a ball this holiday season shopping in the city.
We also visited the Mormon Temple in the Oakland Hills. The holiday light display on their grounds is beautiful. I would recommend it to anyone.
Going in September, thanks for the video
Glad you enjoyed it. I've got a tier list video as well if you're looking for other ideas on what to do!
Have fun weather is usually pretty good in September
A true San Franciscan city tour. Learned a thing or two from this awesome ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
It doesn't seem that long ago where we took the BART into SF and had a wonderful day. Now it is too damn dangerous just to ride the BART. Ever wonder why BART has it's own police department.
For what it's worth I've lived here for 2 years and from day 1 until today I've maintained it's the most beautiful city in the US.
It's called "I don't go to the tenderloin"
Thanks so much for a balanced tour, you also stayed honest to what you show us. I lived in SF Bay Area for 5 years, and 2 years in southern California (1997-2004). I worked 3 years as a taxi driver. Many major cities have changed in the world. In many crime did go up a lot. But In California, three are to horrible issues bringing down: Drugs, uncontrollable Petty theft and businesses literally closing.
These three together are the definition of a terrible fall for the city. Of course It is not a zombie town but there must be something to do fast to save the downtown and bring down the number of burglaries and theft. I lived in dangerous cities like East Oakland and other places.
Sure it's dangerous, but there was no constant theft. That is surprised me in California recently for the moment. I live in Paris (its area is called Ile de France). Sure it gets kind of dangerous in some known neighborhoods, but no stores or malls are closing, not even in the most dangerous neighborhoods.
Westfield mall is not shutting down. Westfield, the company, is defaulting on their loan for the property and returning the mall to the bank. The bank will continue operating it.
There is a difference between an ownership change and the mall literally shutting down.
I think the mayor wants to tear it down no? But you’re right! It’s still operating for now.
@@AdamDoesNotExist Lol, I didn't hear anything about tearing down the mall building. It's a historic building anyway. It's illegal to tear down.
But it's not even closed. The mall will continue operating under new ownership. The operating company won't change, only the corporate owner. People are desperately trying to make this a thing, but it's not that big a deal.
I have been to so many malls in the USA and some are doing well, while some have few stores, and some are dead. Westfield San Francisco Mall is close to dead. There isn't enough foot traffic for companies to have reasons to open stores. There was a really high-end mall in Chestnut Hill, Boston named "The Atrium" that was already dying back in 2017. I was in Baltimore July 2017 and Harbor Place Mall had quite a few vacant stores already then and now it is empty, but the escalators and water fountain are still on.
Thank you for providing a little bit of optimism.
Glad you appreciate it!
Don't rent a car in San Francisco. All the windows will be smashed. If you do rent, make sure to have enough insurance to cover all the damage.
And don’t leave anything in your rental. In general, I wouldn’t rent a car unless you absolutely have to
been to that beach underneath the GGB it's a nice clothing optional one!
It's so cool that it's in the city, and beautiful, with beautiful views of the bridge!
Ive been watching alot of Videos on San Francisco this one is by far one of the best ones I've seen and enjoyed.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hiya Adam
Thank you for sharing great video and info about SF.
Under my list to visit SF even people say many bad things.
I wish can join you when you was in SF.
Hello from Malaysia 🇲🇾🌇
Hello! Glad you liked it!
@@AdamDoesNotExist Hello there
Yes i like it 🤗🤝
This was really cool...thanks!
I'm really glad to hear you liked the video!
Personally, I prefer to call the city "Frisco" rather than San Francisco. it's short,quick and easy.
Ah, the locals will not like that. If you're looking to save some time I'd suggest saying "S.F."
@@AdamDoesNotExistor call it 'the city'
This is a great and balanced video. I appreciate you showing that despite the significant challenges that SF still has a lot to offer and is not completely unsafe. I moved from away from SF in 2017 to go back home to SoCal but I’ll always have fond memories of my time there.
Thanks for the comment! Glad you appreciated the video!!
Great presentation video of San Francisco in 8.26 minutes!
Thank you!
San Fran needs republican leadership for like 10 years to get it back to being a safe and vibrant city again. We all know it just can't say it out loud. Sorry but we need to vote everyone out, everyone
Maybe. It kind of worked in Detroit and Philly. I think most would agree that what's going on now simply isn't working.
Haven't had a Republican mayor since the 50s.
@@AdamDoesNotExist What's not working? I have lived in the Bay Area all my life, SF is a great place to visit. Because there's homeless in the Tenderloin and car breakins, it's not working? I disagree. That's only two negative things in a sea of positive.
btw the Tenderloin has been like that for like 50 years, across Republican and Democratic leadership. The car breakins, that was a thing already when I was in high school, I graduated 1996.
in terms of violent crime safe. Most spots still incredibly vibrant but what ever you do pls DONT BRING UR CAR.
@@neutrino78xI also live in the Bay Area, the tenderloin isn’t the “tenderloin” anymore IT GREW ALOT, the city has spiraled out of control with their WACKO policies such as the DA claiming certain laws are “racist” and when there broken it targets black people (read that again it makes absolutely no sense) but the mayor was with the DA on that so laws have been pushed back greatly !
IKEA just opened up in that 6x6 mall, occupying 3 floors- its doing great!
And a Banana Republic flagship just opened in Union Square. Hopefully a sign of good things to come.
San Fran will make a comeback but when I do not know. Right now if you not a up and coming billionaire or a person with some kind of mental illness the city isn't for you because it's to expensive to live a normal life earning a average salary.
I'm ready for it whenever it does come. Meanwhile there are still some redeeming qualities.
SF use to be a Great place to visit…I thought it was the Most Beautiful City in the Country. But I realized that was only superficial after getting to know the city better. It may look alluring but be Careful!!!!
Please be careful in every city. And maybe a bit more careful in SF.
@@AdamDoesNotExist Yeah but I’m SF, the Most subtle things can Affect your life. Be careful who you talk to, and Be careful who tries to touch you!
@@Monstacheeks I live here in sf & I’m trying to get to the bottom of who is stalking/harassing me so relentlessly.. is this something you experienced ?
Great video! I was born and raised in Alameda.
Thank you! I love Alameda. You might find the video I did on Oakland interesting as well!
Just got back, had a great time.
That's awesome!
So I Married an Axed Murder in San Francisco movie
in june i went to oakland for a concert and decided to spend the the sunny part of the day in san francisco for the first time. i walked around by myself without looking at maps or anything (dumb idea, i know) but i never really felt in danger or unsafe. some homeless guy did walk up to me in mcdonalds and tell me to buy him a happy meal or else but i just left instead. lands end lookout was really pretty and i touched the pacific pcean with some fisherman, so was market street and union square before i went to embarcadero station to bart over to oakland. honestly due to all of the anti homeless inconveniences (like no benches or places to charge a phone at resturants) it was pretty annoying to visit so i didnt think it was anything amazing. And i know if i wandered the tenderloin a bit more I probably would have come across despair. But I didn't think t was horrible. Though it did make me realize that the central valley feels like an entirely different state vs the big cities which are the stereotypical california you see people clown on.
I think you just about nailed it!
If you are local to the area, it is a great time to have a staycation because it isnt that crowded. There is a lot to do in SF that is FREE and outdoorsy. BUT, there are safety and security concerns. You cant drive into the city and park anywhere SAFE. Either the CITY will get you for parking or the criminals will break into your car. EVERYTHING is super expensive! There is the base price and then there are all of these add on taxes and fees plus the expectation of a 20% tip! I dont know how tourist can afford to fly here, stay in a hotel and always eat out! Lastly, you never know what is going to happen on the streets these days. Will you get run over, will there be a shooting, stabbing or robbery? Will there be an organized retail theft, will there be people with mental issue to contend with? Are you comfortable using correct pronouns and accepting men and women as a self identified gender that can only be known upon asking and if you dare to mis-gender a huge emotional public scene will occur! For me it is just not worth it.
It's really NANCY PELOSI GARDEN OF EDEN 😊
Thanks for posting this man! I was wondering how SF is doing today and looking at so many videos.
I'll never forget smoking a bowl in Al Capones Alcatraz cell and at the top of the blocks where the yard/basketball court is during the summer of '07. I was only 17 with my buddy and we smoked in every iconic spot and thought it was so cool. We were gonna smoke on the golden gate but the literal second our skateboards hit the ground we were ordered to get off them and we realized it wasn't a good idea LOL.
Smoked out all over the japanese tea gardens and were stoked the tea leaves looked like pot.
Had the best chinese food in chinatown at some hole in the wall where no one spoke english. Never ever have i had chicken chow mein like that.
Wasn't old enough for Anchor brew co. Sad about that.
This comment is hilarious! Sounds like you had an authentic SF experience. Glad you enjoyed the video!!
In your video and like in so many other videos, and if you explore around San Francisco with Google Maps, there are barely any people around. That sums it up.
Keep in mind I’m going in off hours and intentionally not filming people. But I’m general it does feel less busy than pre pandemic.
@@AdamDoesNotExist I lived in the Bay Area for twenty years and visited San Francisco often for community events, concerts, festivals, etc. San Francisco was always full of people and traffic was busy no matter where you were. I would park my car at Colma, and take the BART in to save on the garage parking that could easily exceed $30 for a short meetup with friends at the Fairmont, Tonga Room, etc. Experiencing San Francisco is only affordable to those who earn good salaries. The admission for one adult at the Academy of Science is $45. Factor in two adults and two/three children for a two-hour experience that is "meh" at most. SF lacks the world-class fine arts/antiquities museums that NYC, Boston, and Chicago have. The MET in NYC (one of the most impressive museums in the World) is free, with a recommended, but not forced donation. Want to see awesome Medieval art and a huge collection of armored suits and weapons/arms? Yeah Nah. You won't find that in SF anywhere. Pre-Covid, a very humble two-bed hotel room near Union Square - Like Mark Twain - was $300/day - without breakfast. A room at the "W" on Lexington Ave in New York City didn't even cost that much or in hotels on the West side near the Natural Museum of History would be under $180. San Franciso is a wannabee city on par with something like Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The transplants who live there think it is God's creation on Earth, when it is anything but that. The Brooklyn Bridge and Bow Bridge are far more impressive than the Golden Gate Bridge, and at least both cross to somewhere more interesting than Sausalito or Tiburon! San Francisco lacks relevant history or culture and walking up hills in dress clothing and shoes is anything but a selling point if Uber and Lyft are overwhelmed and you have to wait an hour for a cable car to get you back to your hotel because one only runs every 20 minutes.
its interesting people always mention how sf is "falling apart" when its like that everywhere. its just media perspective and what you chose to look at. we're all falling apart tbh.
You’re completely right. Don’t get me wrong, there are parts of SF that are absolutely falling apart. But there are parts that are still amazing.
The city’s empty. I worked and lived in SF from 1992 to 2006.
I’ve driven Lombardo and Potrero St.😊
It's a fun time!
I live 1.5 hours from SF. Used to go there for food and fun. In the 80's during college years, party there all night. After college, went there for various tech conventions and job fairs. Not anymore. No but heck no.
Just dont go there
If you don't want to go, definitely don't!
@@AdamDoesNotExist I know it's a nice city and I do want to visit, but it's more important not to encourage the stupid policy in the city so the governers can learn a lessen. Yes we should cancel San Francisco to save the city.
I visit the precidio when I visit SF and I encourage all my friends to it’s so nice and Star Wars was filmed there so I’m kind of biased but still it’s an amazing city I just don’t like the tenderloin and I’ve never seen a homeless man in the precidio
I know my way around SF pretty well but I have never seen a cemetery. What happens if you die in San Francisco?
Hahaha! They Take you to Colma.
@@AdamDoesNotExist Thanks. I had a hunch that was the case. I wonder if Diane Feinstein has a place picked out.
I heard homeless die they can be left their for days before they finally realize their dead
@@ramenlover1727 YIKES!!!
THANK YOU!
You have lived there and you know the city and how to get around without a car. A visitor may not be as lucky. They may have a rental car or driven in from somewhere. They may be in the wrong part of town they are not familiar with.
Yeah that's true. Not only that but I was by myself which I think allows you to be much faster. Still, with google maps you can navigate pretty easily. Finding parking isn't really that bad, but DO NOT leave anything in you car while it's parked. It's hard to "stumble" into a bad area of town. You'll know if things aren't pleasant pretty quickly.
So what, a visitor can end up in the wrong part of town in London, NYC, Rio de Janeiro, etc No matter what city one chooses to travel to do your research ahead of time and ask locals what areas to avoid
100%. A quick google search can tell you what areas to avoid in SF or any other major city.
Dude, just literally stay away from the one bad neighborhood and you're fine. That's it. That's the totality of information you need to have a fun day in SF. Don't go to the Tenderloin and you'll be fine.
@@psfca Yet, isn't it sad when you have to learn warfare survival skills to navigate a city as a tourist in order to feel safe, specially when in just a decade or so ago such wasn't necessary? I AM from Rio de Janeiro and, after living over a decade abroad, I still catch myself thinking while walking at night or arriving late from work "no frekking way I'd escape unscathed from such behaviour in Rio..."
No, San Francisco is no longer a pretty city if you have to switch to a warzone mindset in order to enjoy it.
There's a tale of 2 cities now
Totally
When you live in San Francisco 😭😭😭
I don't... but I used to!
@@AdamDoesNotExistwhen did you left?
@@Alejandro-vn2si ‘21. But I didn’t go far
@@AdamDoesNotExist So, you stayed in the bay area? Or you left california? You have made good videos about SF and I wnat more content about it.
There are empty stores in every city in the US. I was born and grown up here. I love SF and I also love Honolulu which has many of the same problems. I never do any of the tourist places but
I have always loved the cities mentioned. What I really love is just to walk all over the city stopping to eat any old time any old place. SF in the 40's was fabulous and in the 60's it was the best
city in the world. There is no SF sourdough bread anymore. Boudin doesn't come close to Larribarou or Franciscan used to be. San Francisco has stories and if you take a historical walk of which there are many, you will learn things that will astound you. Just remember that all cities and large towns have homeless encamptments and car jackings and druge, etc. These are problems that need systematic solutions and courageous congress people. And Oh Yes, Mayors who are invested in their populations.
There certainly are both really great, and not so great things in San Francisco. The scale is a bit different of course.
not the extent we see in leftists utopia though especially in san francisco. the vacancies are skyrocketing along with homelessness and degeneracy
@@rollinOnCode yes, how could we solve this problem?. Round them up and send them to Mars?. Do you have better idea?
@@maily8388 we can just build a wall around California and throw all the woke leftists into their woke leftist utopia. make the left deal with the consequences of their own policies and actions
Thank you for giving us a more balanced view of SF. Here I thought, watching totally negative videos, believed SF really went downhill.
Btw, I thought you were an established channel. How is it, that you have only 783 subscribers ?!? Is this your 2nd channel ?
This channel cannot be your first foray into making videos, right ?
Than you so much for this incredibly kind comment! Aside form middle school projects, this is my first foray into making videos. If you look back you'll see that some of videos are super terrible. But I do spend a ton of time making them so they are getting better!
@@AdamDoesNotExist Wow ! Very impressed. I'll check out your previous videos.
Aside from time and dedication, I'm guessing like anything else, some people just have a natural talent.
I'm glad you exist Adam.
@@SpringNotes That is so unbelievably kind. Thank you!!!
When I was in SF a few weeks back it was crawling with homelessness/filth and stench around its fading glories. I did try to look beyond the ruins so to enjoy/reminiscence the city of my birth/youth... Believe it or not afterward, I didn't leave my heart in San Francisco like in my past visits...
That's certainly true in some parts
Damn i miss my hometown.
So, if you know where to go and where NOT TO GO, it is still worthwhile? Seems to be what you are saying, since you didn't visit the places a tourist might accidentally stumble upon.
Yeah pretty much. Mid market, near the Twitter (or is is X now?) building and the malls are good places to avoid. Any of the classic tourist places, and many of the well known neighborhoods are still lovely.
Hi Adam, I'll be visiting SF in November. If mid Market (around the exTwitter building) is a place to avoid, should I avoid the City Hall area? I was going to include City Hall as part of my itinerary.
@@munbok When I was there, City Hall was fine. But unless you're there to get married, or go to a concert at Bill Graham, there just isn't that much to do. Maybe plan to walk around the plaza for a little bit, then walk over to nearby Hayes Valley for restaurants/bars/stores.
Damn sf is a ghost town
Very spooky in some places
@@AdamDoesNotExistnot what I ment
"streets are steep in san francisco"
san francisco takes the old adage "poop flows downhill" to a whole new level 😂
Word
People like him that keep believing that nothing is wrong and keep voting for the same failed politics are why this once beautiful city has decided into the failed city it has, guess you could move across the bridge to Oakland right?
I think there are a lot of things wrong
@@AdamDoesNotExist did you vote for London Breed ,Nancy Pelosi and the current city council members ? That would be a good place to start with what's wrong with SF
I don’t live in San Francisco
OMG Oakland is way worse than SF, much of the Bay Area crime comes from Oakland and the East Bay ... Oakland thugs drive over the Bay Bridge commiting retail thefts and car break ins in the city then get back on the bridge to Oakland. One prolific thug who committed over 20 robberies in SF was finally caught and arrested in his Oakland home